the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer. Luke 22:15.
Jesus heartily longs for you, dear guest at the Lord’s table. He hungers more for you than you hunger for Him, as if He were the one to eat and as if you were the food. Hence He says, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of. " Who was present then? A poor woman who was a sinner (John 4). Thus it is really food for which He hungers, when you come to His table with deep yearning and desire to enter into close communion with Him; to be united with Him in the most thorough manner; to remember Him and to present Him in such a way, in faith, to your spiritual eye, as if you saw Him hanging upon the cross, as if He gave Himself to you, as if you saw His blood flow, saw Him bow His head and die for you. The Savior has something great in mind by this Supper. He does not give us empty symbols of His death. He gives Himself to you. Therefore He wants no small and narrow hearts, but enlarged hearts; true faith; an intense hunger; that He may give much, all even Himself. The more room you have for Him, the more you will receive. The greater your longing, the more you will partake of Christ (Hebrews 3:14).
For such consoling Supper, Lord,
Be praised throughout all ages!
Preserve it pure, since ’gainst the word
"This is! " the world so rages,
Grant, that Thy body and Thy blood
Be my sole comfort and sweet food.
In my last hour. Yea, Amen!
