Have you ever been invited to dinner by
a friend or have you played host to your family friends in your house for
dinner? More often than not; either way, the hostess has got all the work and
thinking to do. The guests never bother themselves or get apprehensive over the
feast. They never get to worry about the food, how it would be served, how the
foodstuffs would be purchased, how much time will go into the preparation. No,
their only bother would be to get themselves to their hostess’s house at the
appropriate time. They won’t even have bother on how to eat the food. Except
when the hosts are very revered people, then in that case guests may be a bit
careful to be well behaved so they leave a good impression on the minds of
their hosts. Even at that, meal times are the most relaxing moments individuals
could have!
Also, most times you are invited to dinner, you don’t dictate to the host what you want. Even if you are very good friends with your host, you many indicate some particular kind of meal you want by the side but maybe not on a serious note. However, you can be rest assured your hostess will go out of her way to give you the best!
God hosts us to dinner…He is our
“hostess”! What a hostess does is exactly what God does when He invites us to
dinner. He is the cook, the chef, the preparer of the table, the decider of the
recipes and the determiner of the number of courses of the meals. Besides, did
you notice the Message Bible’s version of that scripture quoted above? He
prepares a six-course meal. Three courses meals sometimes could be inundating,
how much more a six-course option! Needless to say that on God’s table, there
are all sorts of varieties. The Omni-potent God, has the best culinary
experience ever. He knows about starters, the main meals, the desserts and all;
He is the one who has been making bread even before bread existed. (Remember
how he rained manna for 40 years for the Israelites and how He fed Elijah with
bread through the raven?) Name the bread recipes you can imagine- all sorts
of delicious patisserie and bread ranging from Toasted Sunflower
Bread, Soft Honey Oat Bread, Finnish Wheat Rolls¸ Cinnamon Rolls, Pumpkin
Banana Bread with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting and all. How do you
think bakers get to do their thing? He gives the inspiration to them because He
himself is the author of all wisdom and expertise!
Did you also think He gave ordinary
quails to the Israelites to eat? They must have been seasoned and well made.
Exodus 16:12 says “I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel.
Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the
morning you shall be filled with bread. How about the different types
of exotic drinks you will expect to find on the table? Have you forgotten how
He made water come out of the rock and how also He turned water into wine? The
wine was adjudged the best! He serves us and our cups run over; you can’t be
afraid of food poison or constipation .Isaiah 25: 6 says “And in this
mountain the Lord of
hosts will make for all people a feast of choice pieces, a feast of wines
on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of well-refined wines on the lees”. God’s
barn is unlimited; He opens his hands and satisfies the desires of every living
being (Psalm 145:16). Malachi 3 tells us that there is a storehouse in heaven
from which He meets our desires.
The hostess makes sure the food is
ready before her guests arrive. She wouldn't want to keep her guests waiting
for long whilst she gets ready. Every preparation is done well ahead of time
and the guests just come in to start to enjoy the lavish display of all manner
of delicacies. Once the table is set, the hostess sits on the table (with her
family) to enjoy the meal with the guests. God’s provisions for us have been
made even before we came into the world; all we need to succeed in
life! Also, God is not the only one present at the table; Jesus our
Lord sits at the table and the Holy Spirit as well. What a privilege we
have as children of the Most High!
The other interesting thing about God’s
gesture is the fact that He hosts us to this banquet right in the presence of
our enemies. He doesn't chase them away. They need be present to see what He
wants to bless you with. They are to be pitied because they cannot be a part of
it. God did not chase them and they can only salivate as they watch you eat.
Unfortunately, many of us, rather than sitting and concentrating to enjoy what
God has set on the table for us, we focus on the enemies and we start to chase
them... Come on! We are expected to sit as a royal partakers of the table and
enjoy our meal; but many times we get up from the table and we start to
game-hunt the enemies. Sadly enough, we go on and on without returning to the
table to partake of our rights. We fall victims of the distractions of the enemy
and just keep chasing shadows.
From today, may we begin to enjoy our
dinner with our King in Jesus name. It is an overloaded, superlative and
exceptional array of the highest order of delicacies that make the enemies
envious; the reason they don’t want us to partake of it. They choke at the
sight of that table! Hence they want to keep us depressed, unhappy, full of
fear and unbelief. What are our table rights? Healing, Deliverance, Salvation,
Grace, Favour, Mercy, Children, Abundance, Wealth, Good Success, Peace, Joy,
Marital fulfilment and every good thing we can imagine ….The list is endless!
So sit down elegantly and let him play
the perfect Host. Dine with your King and enjoy a table set with the highest
level of exquisiteness, royal daintiness and eternal sophistication!
Enjoy the lyrics of the old time song
titled "Come and Dine"
Jesus has a table spread
Where the saints of God are fed
He invites His chosen people:
'Come and dine'.
With his manna he does feed
And supplieth every need
Oh, it's good to sup with Jesus all the time.
Chorus: 'Come and dine', the Master calls,'Come and dine'
You can eat at Jesus' table anytime.
He who fed the multitude,
Changed the water into wine
To the hungry calleth now, 'Come and dine'.
The Pen......
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