Luke 14:16-24 - Trinity
II - June 2, 2013
Come
Lord Jesus, Be Our Guest
That’s
what we pray before we eat. It’s known
as the common table prayer. We invite
Jesus to join us as we sit down to enjoy what He Himself has given us. We usually don’t think of such things as coming
from Jesus. Of course, we know that
there is one God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three Persons in one divine
Essence, and that Jesus is God. And all
good things come from God. But we tend
to talk about the Father, not the Son, as being the One who blesses us with our
material things, don’t we? Well, it’s
true. It’s proper to speak this way since
that’s how Scripture speaks. The Father
is the source of all things. That’s why
we call Him our Maker. It is God the
Father almighty who daily and richly provides us with all that we need to
support this body and life. This is what
we confess in the Creed. And all this He
does only out of fatherly divine goodness and mercy, without any merit or
worthiness in us.
