This Supper meditation is a bit different. I’ve stitched together a handful of quotes about the Lord’s Supper. May these exhortations from our older brothers ready you to feast upon Christ.
Aquinas: “Those who receive this sacrament spiritually acquire life.” “This sacrament is spiritual food, as baptism is spiritual birth.”
Calvin: “Each week, at least, the table of the Lord ought to have been spread for the company of Christians, and the promises declared on which we might then spiritually feed. […] all, like persons famishing, should come to the feast.”
Thomas Watson: “We must come to the Lord’s Supper with longing hearts. Say as Christ, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover,”. If God prepares a feast—we must get an appetite. As David longed for the water of the well of Bethlehem, so should we long for Christ in the Lord’s Supper.”
RM M’Cheyne: “See, he giveth Himself to us in the bread; lo! we accept of Him in accepting this bread. Bear witness, men and angels, bear witness, all the universe — ‘My beloved is mine.’”
Spurgeon: “The main object of the Lord’ Supper is evidently that we should remember Christ by it. […] It is not that you should call to mind a doctrine, though I would not have you ignorant or unmindful of any truth which the Spirit of God has revealed; neither is it that you should be mindful of a precept, though, beloved, I would have you be careful that in all things you do your Savior’s will. But the pith and essence of your business at His table is, “This do in remembrance of Me,” that is, of Himself—of His own blessed person.”
Chrysostom: “Let us then return from [this] table like lions breathing fire, having become terrible to the devil; thinking on our Head, and on the love which He hath shown for us.”
So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ…
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