Week Twenty-One - What's on the Menu?

I wish I could remember who said this, but his idea has stuck in my head, and I'd like to explore it with you a bit today. Here's what he said. "God is not a buffet. He's a menu with only one entree." 

The speaker indicated that we can't pick and choose when it comes to our eternal salvation. Jesus is the only way to God. He is the once for all, the only name under heaven given for salvation. If we go around tasting and trying other ways, we risk missing the true way. 

I agree. Jesus is the only way to salvation. And, reader, if you haven't yet tasted His love and forgiveness through repentance, I adjure you to taste and see that the Lord is good and gracious. He is ready and willing to forgive. Our part is to believe. 

But here's the thing with the Lord. Once we become a child of God through salvation, we step through into a most miraculous banquet room. No good thing will He withhold from those who love Him. We are now complete in Him, and all that is His is ours. 

Spurgeon put it this way, "When Jesus is the host, no guest goes empty from the table. Our head is satisfied with the precious truth which Christ reveals; our heart is content with Jesus, as the altogether lovely object of affection; our hope is satisfied for whom have we in heaven but Jesus? and our desire is satiated, for what more can we wish for than "to know Christ and to be found in Him"? Jesus fills our conscience until it is at perfect peace; our judgment with persuasion of the certainty of His teachings; our memory with recollection of what He has done, and our imagination with the prospects of what He is yet to do."

These truths are a variable banquet for our souls. We feed upon the Word through the aid of His Spirit. We desire the sincere milk and the meat of the Word. No one ever goes away from the banquet table empty. And the table is always full, always varied, and always fresh as we feed upon the Word.

So what's on the menu? Christ - who passes all understanding, fills our longings, and is sweeter than honey. Come and enjoy!

Psalm 19:7-10

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul:
the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart:
the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever:
the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.