Communion over Breakfast

John 21:12-14

This passage is short but intimate. Jesus had risen from the grave in victory and glory. Then, on his third appearance to his disciples, he made them breakfast.

What a small action of intimacy. In literature, there is something profoundly communal and intimate when a story or a book emphasizes a meal. God knows that, and we see that here in John 21:12-14. In these two small verses, we see Jesus's deep love for his people - he makes himself known by serving them and providing for their simplest needs.

Not only that, John writes that they didn’t need to ask who it was they knew. They finally knew! Over the years, Jesus had developed faith in a deep knowledge of who He was in His followers.

Jesus provides the food, the table, and the setting and invites the disciples then and us now to that very table to commune with him. To know him intimately. We never have to ask who it is, but we know.

It is Jesus.

Reflect on these questions: how is your relationship with Jesus right now? How is your daily communion with him?

Agnes Beaumont was an early Puritan and Baptist woman who had a zeal for the Lord unlike any other. After begging for a ride to a church meeting held on a Friday, she writes this in her journal:

After a while, the meeting began, and God made it a blessed meeting for my soul. Oh, it was a feast of fat things to me! My soul was filled with consolation, and I sat under his Shadow, with great delight, and His fruit was pleasant to my taste when I was at the Lord's table. I found such A return of prayer that I was scarcely able to bear up under it”(The Trial of Agnes Beaumont).

Do you crave to be at the Lord’s table with him? Do you, like Agnes, delight to sit under His shadow? I know that I don’t do it daily. I pray that I become like our sister Agnes and that I am deeply moved every time I come to the table of Christ.

I pray that you do, too.