Doing the Dishes...

“You prepare a table before me” – Psalm 23:5

“Dishes Night”, “KP”, “Scullery”, whatever you call it, no one seems to like it. It’s that night when it is your turn to set the table or do the dishes. It’s tedious and messy. Yet it is a necessary nuisance, so we do because it’s “our turn”. Nobody sets the table because they enjoy it, do they?

To “prepare the table” is to serve. That’s how ancient religions served their gods. They would get the sacrifices ready, get the proper utensils, and literally arrange the table for their god. In religion we serve God.

But in Christianity God serves us. That’s right, God serves us! (read all about it!)

In our view to serve is to be “beneath” someone else. In God’s view to serve is an exalted position.

“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” Mark 10:45

In religion, we prepare a table for God, in Christianity God prepares a table for us! And he delights in “setting the table” before us.

So stop “serving” God as if you were going to impress him, earn brownie points, or persuade him to look favorable upon you. It won’t work. You are not all that impressive!

But Jesus is! And when we are united with Christ through faith, God is delighted in us!

So, come and feast at the table God has prepared for you! (check it out)

The well wisher of your soul’s happiness,

Pastor Tom