A Thanksgiving Meal
Eucharistic Meditation
The Psalter repeatedly calls the people of God to worship their Lord with hearts full of thanksgiving.
As we read in Psalm 95, “Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms,” and also in Psalm 100, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.”
At the culmination of our covenant renewal service, we come to this Table, to the sacrament that is sometimes called the “Eucharist,” which means thanksgiving. Here we remember Christ, and we specifically recall in the symbols of broken bread and poured wine, His death on that Roman cross 2,000 years ago outside of Jerusalem. There, He offered the ultimate sacrifice to God on our behalf, the once and for all propitiatory sacrifice, securing our salvation and reconciling each one of us to God in perfect peace.
Therefore, here, every Lord’s Day, is our true thanksgiving meal; a Table set for all fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, in the family of God. And the call is to come now with gratitude in your hearts. Come, receive eternal life. Come, receive assurance, peace, joy, and the nourishment to persevere to the end.
Come, and welcome, to Jesus Christ.
This communion meditation was given on November 23, AD 2025 at King’s Cross Church in Moscow, Idaho.