“Dinnertime!”

Luke 17: 7, 8: “But which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down to eat’? But will he not say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, and properly clothe yourself and serve me until I have eaten and drunk; afterward you will eat and drink’?” As believers, when do we come in from the field to eat? When we leave the harvest field of the world for a while, and come and dine at the Lord’s Table. So when we do this, we aren’t in a rush; we tarry before the Lord first in worship and prayer; we prepare our hearts through confession; and only then do we approach His Table as a people prepared to receive. It is simply what we ought to have done.