To Those Who Rejoice in the Lord,

We will observe the Lord’s Supper this coming Sunday. Our main text for worship will be Habakkuk 3:17-19 in which the prophet declares:

“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places.”

As we prepare ourselves for the table, consider how the Lord has so richly provided for all that we need for all of eternity through the body and blood of Christ. There may be a number of things that fail to come to fruition in this life, however, our redemption in Christ is sure and worthy of our rejoicing! We have the opportunity to again take joy in the God of our salvation through the common elements of bread and wine that serve as signs of the broken body and shed blood of Christ. Just as God makes Habakkuk victorious to tread on the high places, we are more than conquerors in Jesus Christ over the powers of sin and death!

Take time this week to consider how your life serves to glorify God in the midst of the varieties of circumstances that we each face week in and week out. Is your hope and desire to love the Lord your God and your neighbor in ways that glorify Him? If you are failing at either (or both), confess and repent where necessary knowing that the confirmation of your forgiveness and needed merciful nourishment of your faith to improve in both is offered to you at the Lord’s table this Sunday. Look forward to the day when Christ returns and true victory will come at long last when all things will be made new in glory!

As part of your preparation in light of these things, consider this quote from John Calvin: “Now Christ is the only food of our soul, and therefore our Heavenly Father invites us to Christ, that, refreshed by partaking of him, we may repeatedly gather strength until we shall have reached heavenly immortality.”

Soli Deo Gloria,

Cameron