Come and Dine the Master's Calling... Who?

When I was a teenager I frequented a certain church (probably because I was smitten by a boy) anyways the song leader frequently (and I mean every service) sang "Come and Dine" and of course being fifteen every song book song is funny but it wasn't until this week I thoroughly understood how bad the song really was... I searched for the lyrics and well have a whole new outlook after bible study...

"Jesus has a table spread
Where the saints of God are fed,
He invites His chosen people, “Come and dine”"

That was as far as I needed to go. Really?  He invited is chosen people come and dine? Jesus dined with everyone. The low, the hated, the sinner, not just his followers. I am sure that whomever wrote this song had good intentions, we can blame the era I guess, it was written in 1907. Anyways The more I thought about it the more intrigued I became. Am I only feasting with "his chosen people?" "who would God want me to be feasting with?" " what does he mean by feast?" "Why is Jesus always eating?" "Why am I all of a sudden hungry?"

I don't know how to answer all these questions but this weeks study helped me see some of the things Jesus was talking about. 

When Jesus spoke, everyone listened, and I am sure most left confused. I know that I do sometimes. In John 6 the scripture reads 

John 6:48-60 (New King James Version)

⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. ⁵⁰ This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
⁵² The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?”
⁵³ Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵ For My flesh is food indeed,^[a] and My blood is drink indeed. ⁵⁶ He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
⁵⁹ These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.

Many Disciples Turn Away 

⁶⁰ Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?”

The disciples I think were right. I don't understand it and I don't think that anyone did and I doubt anyone really does now. After the study lead me to read about the 'Last Supper' I became even more confused, or convicted... I think I will go with confused to save face:) In 1 Corinthians 11 the scripture says

3 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; ²⁴ and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat;^[b] this is My body which is broken^[c] for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

Well I thought, I have this down we do this a few times a year. This is my Communion ritual:

       Take the nasty tasting bread, Remember the crucifixion, eat the nasty tasting bread.

but as Ms. Hatmaker so eloquently pointed out "Do" is present tense. So what does that mean? Continuous action. Not literally eating the nasty tasting bread all the time but doing like Jesus did. Here is an excerpt from the book that will lead into tomorrow.

"Not only does Jesus' statement require a constant response, but "remembrance" is from the Greek anamnesis meaning "to make real". Communion is more than a memory, more than a reverent moment when we recall Jesus' heroic sacrifice. Remembrance means honoring Jesus' mercy mission with tangible, physical sacrifice. In other words " Constantly make this real." -Jen Hatmaker, Author, "Interrupted"

 So what does this all mean? What stuck out the most was "Remembrance means honoring Jesus' mercy mission with tangible, physical sacrifice." Am I doing that? No. Jesus was broken so that myself and everyone else could have life. What can I do to honor Jesus mercy mission?