Feasting at the Lord’s Table

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

January 23, 2026

Feasting at the Lord’s Table

You prepare a feast for me

    in the presence of my enemies.

Psalm 23:5 

I think of this verse when I gather with family for a meal after the funeral service of their loved one. We are in the presence of our enemy death, in the sense mortality has separated us from the one we love. Even so, in God’s presence, we can feast and rest in His assurances that death is not the end.

I also think of this verse when I kneel at the Altar to receive Holy Communion. There, as I am kneeling with other sinners-made saints by God’s grace, I can rejoice in these eternal truths:

So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:1)

 

For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. (Colossians 1:13)

 

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. (Romans 8:15)

 

Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us. (Ephesians 2:18

 

For God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.” (Hebrews 13:5)

 

(We) have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. (1 Peter 1:4)

My Takeaway: All these truths affirm the words of the praise song, Who I Am that I quoted previously, and words that need to be repeated often,

“I am a child of the Most-High God, and the Most-High God is for me.”

(Ben Fuller, Who I Am, 2022)

I believe these words will help keep us grounded in God’s grace for today.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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