The Best Place to Be

Eucharistic Meditation

In Psalm 84, the psalmist begins by exclaiming, “How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.”

This is a disposition toward Lord’s Day worship that all of God’s people should desire to grow in. In a very real way, your soul should long to be in fellowship with God and His people, to hear the Word preached, to sing His praises, and to sit at His table in the congregation.

In the Isaac Watts hymn that we will sing shortly, How Sweet and Awful is the Place, we are given a tune to this Christian attitude, and a call to humility.

“While all our hearts and all our songs join to admire the feast,
each of us cry, with thankful tongues, ‘Lord, why was I a guest?
Why was I made to hear Thy voice, and enter while there’s room,
when thousands make a wretched choice, and rather starve than come?’
’Twas the same love that spread the feast that sweetly drew us in;
else we had still refused to taste, and perished in our sin.”

Where you are seated right now is the best place in the world to be. For you are seated among the people of God and in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. And you are a guest of the King at His feast. And yet, your presence here has nothing to do with who you are, where you come from, or what you have accomplished. You did nothing at all to earn your place here. All of this is free and unmerited grace from God.

So with thankful hearts, Come, and welcome, to Jesus Christ.

This communion meditation was given on March 22, AD 2026, at King’s Cross Church in Moscow, Idaho.