We eat to know that we’re not alone.
I adapted that statement from a line in the movie “Shadowlands.” In it, C. S. Lewis is talking to a troubled student whose father had a saying, “We read to know we’re not alone.” Certain books do speak for us; we realize that the author thinks as we do and scratched it onto paper. We recognize kindred spirits in characters or at least in the mind of their creator.
Better than books and reading, the assembled Body and eating tell us that we are not alone. Paul told Timothy to flee youthful passions along with those who call on the name of the Lord with a pure heart (1 Timothy 2:22). He wasn’t the only one facing the temptation, nor the only one facing the temptation to moan like nobody understood his problems. Timothy was to pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace like and among his fellow worshippers. In a “great house” there is more than one vessel (1 Timothy 2:20).
When we come to the Lord’s Table we are not alone. Here are fellow saints who are fighting sin and following Christ. You might not see them doing it during the week. Some may not be doing it as well as others. But struggling is not sitting it out. You are not on the field by yourself.
Jesus is saving individuals into a body, a people for His own possession. He is not waiting to do that in heaven. He is doing that right here as we worship Him together. Come and eat and know that You are not alone.