To the Sons and Daughters of Our Father,

As we worship together this Sunday with Matthew 6:11 and its associated truths as our guiding light, we will have the blessing of coming to the Lord’s table. We will celebrate our Father’s rich and lavish provision of the true bread of life and the life giving wine of the new covenant through the body and blood of Jesus Christ. As I was meditating on how each petition of the Lord’s Prayer is ultimately related to revealing and promoting God’s glory, I was struck by how the sacraments are designed to do the same.

Jesus teaches us in Matthew 6:11 to ask our Father who is good and loves to give His children good gifts to, “give us this day our daily bread.” In the same vein, Agur, the son of Jakeh, wisely asks in Proverbs

30:8-9:

“Remove far from me falsehood and lying;

give me neither poverty nor riches;

feed me with the food that is needful for me,

lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?”

or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of God.”

What does this have to do with the glory of God? Quite a bit actually! Jesus and Agur are asking for God our Father to provide for their daily needs so that they can focus on living unto the glory of God. Jesus proclaims this boldly later in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6:25-33 when he challenges the disciples to not worry about their basic daily needs and to “seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”

Given this truth concerning daily provision, how much more will God provide what we need spiritually to strengthen our faith in order to glorify Him and seek His kingdom first? Even greater than our need for daily provision is our need to be reconciled to our Father from whom we have been separated by our sin. The meager elements on this table signify the profound truth that Jesus’ body was broken to satisfy the well-deserved wrath of God and his blood was shed to cover us in his righteousness so as to be restored to our Father.

The bread and juice that we will partake of serves to remind us of both of these profound truths that God provides for our daily and eternal needs so that we may glorify Him in both the now and the not yet. How great and glorious is our God that He not only meets our temporary needs daily, but He also provides for and meets our eternal needs so that we can glorify and enjoy Him forever!

In Christ,

Cameron