This Table has been set for us by God as a means of grace. The bread and the wine are for us rations of grace.
One of the remarkable things about these rations is that they are exactly suited to the difficulties that each one of you will encounter in the coming days. Some of you are in great affliction, some of you are going through significant trials, while others of you are enjoying times of relative ease and prosperity. Some of you are struggling to find work, while others have more business than you know what to do with.
You all need grace, but you need it in differing degrees and amounts. Everything you need will be in your hand shortly. But when I say it will be in your hand shortly, I am speaking to you by way of emblems and signs. It will not be in your hand, and then in your mouth.
Your strength is actually at the right hand of the Father, and your hand and mouth are actually to be found in your heart. Your God is your grace, and your faith is the way you receive Him.
As you come to Him in faith—by the appointed means of taking, receiving, chewing, and swallowing—you are receiving your appointed rations of grace. It will not be deficient grace, and it will not be a giant mountain of surplus grace. God does not feed you with grace for the next year, and God does not give you thin rations.
His grace is always sufficient. But take note—sufficient grace does not always feel like it is sufficient. “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2 Cor. 12:9). So what will you have in a moment? The answer is just enough. So come, and welcome, to Jesus Christ.