We are called to feed with Jesus Christ at His Table. He is the host; He is seated at the head of the Table because He is the head of the Church. But He is not seated there with His enemies, but rather with His bride, the Church, and He is one with His bride. This is not all. He is also the food set on the Table. So we are called to see Him by faith in at least these three ways. Faith sits down at this Table and expects to rise up nourished with the very life of God.
Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of God the Father in heaven, which is His seat of universal dominion. As we consider Him there, we reflect on how it is necessary that He be considered the Lord of the Table, seated at the Head.
But His Spirit has been poured out upon the Church, making that Church His bride. His Spirit has been given to us to make us one with Him, and this necessarily makes us one with one another. And so in the Lord’s Supper you are summoned to see Jesus Christ in your neighbor, in your wife, in your husband, in your children, in your parents. Do you have trouble because they are not worthy? Then you are not yet coming to this Table in the faith that sees that no one is worthy, no one can be worthy. That is the point. In the name of Jesus Christ, stop seeing this Table as a blue-ribbon reward for the self-righteous.
And last, you are called to see (by faith alone) that God performs these wonders, these signs and seals, by the covenantal meaning He has inseparably assigned to this bread and the wine. We ascend into heaven, transcending our earthly limits, and the bread and wine goes with us. The Holy Spirit is poured out upon us, declaring us to be God’s saints on the earth, and He blesses the bread and wine.
Some may object saying that this simply makes the bread and wine a mere metaphor. But if we understand by faith, we see that nothing is a mere metaphor, and all is glory.