Our God is truly good. The only attitude that does not see Him that way is unbelief—the twisted view that there could be another source of good, an alternative take on it, another way.
But only God is good. This means that anyone who would be good also must come to Him on His terms. His Word defines what is good; His holy arm establishes what is good; His righteousness extends to all generations.
Because God is good, the table He prepares for us is good. He has led us here, and He has prepared this table in the presence of our enemies. They are enemies, fundamentally, because they insist on another source for goodness. Whether it is man and his word, or nature and its law, or the pandemonium of postmodernism, our enemies are what they are because they hate the Word, they hate the water, they hate the bread, and they hate the wine. We love them all.
This world belongs to God; He could have assigned different sacraments, and there was a time in the older covenant when the sacraments did have another appearance. But the voice of our God, the voice of all that is good, is always recognizable in whatever He is saying. Today, He is speaking here. He is saying, “Come to me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” God is good.
Never allow yourself to think that this table is all about your goodness. No, it is set in the name of the goodness of God. You are to come frail, and leave strengthened. You come repentant, and leave encouraged. You come sick, and leave healthy. It is not the other way around.
Are you unworthy? Then confess it, and come. Are you unworthy? Then you qualify! How good is God! He has set this table here, today, for you—a table for the unworthy.