What Table Do You Sit At?

Do you remember back in school?  Maybe your middle school years? Or even as early as fourth grade. Whenever it was that you got to start choosing where you wanted to sit in the cafeteria. Think back to that first time you walked into that fluorescent light cavern.

Does it give you the willies looking back? Cause it does me!

Oh the anxiety! Where are my friends? What if my friends don't have the same lunch? What if they do but there aren't enough seats at their table? What if my friends aren't really my friends? What about my tray?! What if it falls and splatters everywhere? What if someone makes fun of my food? The worries can go on and on and on.

It seems like ever since that first step into the school cafeteria, I continued to hustle, worry, and force my way to whatever table was the most advantageous for me to be at. Because we all want to be at the cool table. Or the most-liked table. Or the highest-achieving table. We have been conditioned since we were pre-teens to look for the table that is the best.

I would be willing to bet that all that hustling and striving has left you pretty worn out. Though you may have the seat at the table with the highest social standing, you can barely keep your seat for all the looking around you are doing. Looking around for who's going to maybe topple you and take your seat. What we think is the cool table is really just a table full of "kids" that are buying into the same lie you have been. That there is a certain level they have to be at. That there are certain things one has to do, maintain and be to earn that place at the "popular kids" table?

What if I told you that the "table" is a lie? 

What we believe to be the "table to be at" is just a card board folding table so ragged from being fought over it's only staying up because of the pile of egos trampled on and piled up underneath it. This table that somehow gives us prestige or good-standing in our communities is just another place that we all are wearing our masks to prove we are enough to the world.

There is a better table. 

A table made of the finest wood the Creator has. That it has endless leaves to be inserted so that there will always be room for each of us. There are infinite chairs with the comfiest of cushions for us to rest on.

The best part of the table is that you don't have to do anything to earn a spot there.

The table of life has often been the measure of who we are or where we are in life. But Jesus, our loving gracious more than enough Jesus has made a table for ALL OF US. A table big enough for all of humanity to be covered by His grace.

Jesus's table is open to you. There are no reservations, there are no bribes, there is nothing between you and His table. We simply need to accept the invitation Christ has for us.

Are you ready for some dinner?