Breakfast with Jesus!

Last updated on: November 6, 2014 at 6:02 pm by Chelsea Patterson

Breakfast with Jesus! 2014-11-06T18:02:17-05:00 Chelsea Patterson

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This morning was one of the kinds of mornings that I absolutely adore. I woke up at the crack of dawn and hopped out of bed, grabbed my Bible and spent time with my Lord. After that, I laced up my sneakers and headed out the door for a run around DC. Everything was still dark, but I enjoyed running and meditating on what I had read. I wanted to share from Spurgeon’s Morning by Morning. My heart was encouraged, and I hope yours will be also!

Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” – John 21:12

In these words the believer is invited to enjoy a holy nearness to Jesus. “Come and eat” implies the same table, the same food, and perhaps it means to sit side by side, and even lean our head on the Savior’s shoulder. It is being brought into the banqueting house, where the banner of redeeming love waves in welcome. This invitation gives us a vision of union with Jesus, because Christ Himself is the only food that we can feast upon when we eat with Him. What union is this! It has a depth that reason cannot fathom. Ponder His words; “Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.” It is also an invitation to enjoy fellowship with the saints. Christians may differ on a variety of points, but they all have one spiritual appetite; and if we cannot all feel alike, we can all feed alike on the Bread of Life sent down from heaven. At the table of fellowship with Jesus we are one bread and one cup. As the loving cup goes around, we commit our lives to one another. Get nearer to Jesus, and you will find yourself linked more and more in spirit to all who like yourself are supported by the same heavenly manna. If we were nearer to Jesus, we would be nearer to one another. We also see in these words the source of strength for every Christian. To look at Christ is to live; but for strength to serve Him, you must eat what He provides. We work too often in a sense of unnecessary weakness because we neglect this perception of the Master. None of us need to put ourselves on a low diet; on the contrary, we should fatten ourselves in the Gospel so that we may derive strength from it and extend every power to its limit in the Master’s service. Then if you would realize nearness to Jesus, union with Jesus, love to His people, and strength from Jesus, “come and have breakfast” with Him by faith.

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