Communion meditation for November 9: Luke 12:24

Our first acts as a constituted membership are an offertory and celebration of the Eucharist. Having taken our membership oaths, we offer a portion of our goods and our income to the Lord, and then we sit down at His table.

These are appropriate initial acts for this congregation because they set the pattern for all our actions, for the whole life of this body. Our whole life as a community of believers involves sharing this table here every Sunday, as well as sharing table with each other consistently between Sundays. Our whole life as a community should be characterized by offering ourselves and all our resources to the furtherance of God’s work and His kingdom, and by sharing generously of what we have been given.

These acts embody the faith that should permeate our whole lives both individually and together. As Jesus said in the sermon texts this morning, our faith in the living God is manifested in our use of possessions, and by our trust in Him for every need. By offering our tithes and offerings, we are acknowledging that all comes from Him and is to be returned to Him as gift. By sitting at this table, we are confessing our faith in a heavenly Father, and His merciful Son, who give us food at the proper time, a God who feeds us even as He feeds the ravens.