This is a table of peace. So, you should eat from it and then go make some trouble. You aren’t reconciled with God in order to continue fellowshipping with the world. Rather, you are consecrated by His Word and communed at His table in order to be commissioned to go make holy war on evil.
Those in Christ are at peace with God but at enmity with the world. Resolve it in your mind that this is just the way it is. You serve the Lord Jesus who was crucified for you to have peace with God. But He invites you to carry a cross. His disciples are called to be staunch in living for God’s glory. But living for God’s glory is not about having warm fuzzies during a morning quiet time, or a tingle down your spine during a wonderful hymn. Glorifying God smells like the sweat and dust of battle. You eat this bread and drink this wine in order to be strengthened to go forth to defile the modern altars of Moloch, and to bring about righteous justice.
As you go forth to make trouble, remember that compromised kings will most certainly accuse you of being Israel’s troubler. But trouble it you must, for Baal is worshipped there. Where is there idolatry in your own heart? There is your battleground, and you must be ruthless. Where are the oppressed and enslaved? Go, by grace, and deliver in Christ’s name. Where is there injustice in your dealings, in your family, or in your nation? Look to the Word, and apply the Scriptures to the entirety of your life, home, and country.
This side of eternity we feast as the church militant. Do not begrudge the battles that lay before you this week. Be heartened by this meal, be spirited by this wine, and go tear down strongholds of evil.
So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ…
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