Giver & Gift

Eucharistic Meditation

One of the most astounding truths of Christianity is that God is both the great Giver and Gift.

God is our uncreated Creator. All things are of Him and through Him and to Him (Rom. 11:36). He works all things after the counsel of His own will (Eph. 1:11). He makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust (Mt. 5:45). He is the Father of lights, from whom comes every good and perfect gift (Jas. 1:17).

At the same time, what God gives is none other than Himself. As John 3:16 reads, “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son” (Jn. 3:16). He is the gift. Through the incarnation of His own eternal Son, God united Himself to His own creation, and redeemed for Himself a people through the shedding of His own blood (Acts 20:28).

That is what we see and receive here in this holy sacrament. This Table is prepared for you by God the Father. And what you receive here in this bread and wine is God the Son by His Spirit. Therefore this is a weekly visible reminder that God, who did not spare His own Son but delivered Him over for us all, will also with Him freely give us all things (Rom. 8:32).

So come, and welcome, to Jesus Christ.

This communion meditation was given on April 12, AD 2026, at King’s Cross Church in Moscow, Idaho.