daily devotional

“Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: 
therefore God hath blessed thee for ever,” Psalm 45:2.   
 
 
The purpose of Christ working in our souls is that His joy may be fulfilled in 
us. His joy will be fulfilled in us when His yoke becomes our chief delight, 
when His burden becomes so light that it is our chief delight to seek and to do 
His will.  
 
 
This joy shall be ultimately fulfilled when we are able to partake of His 
dainties as we see in Luke 22:28-30: “Ye are they which have continued with me 
in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed 
unto me; That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones 
judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” 
 
 
To do the will of His Father was the meat that maintained His very existence. We 
are invited to eat and drink with Him at His table in His kingdom as we saw in 
Luke 22:30. We will eat and drink of His dainties, and those dainties are to do 
the will of the Father. 
 
 
I want you to see this in John 4:32-34: “But he said unto them, I have meat to 
eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any 
man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will 
of him that sent me, and to finish his work.”
 
We will sit in His kingdom feasting at the table of the Lord, that is to feed on 
that precious obedience of Christ, how He has done the will of the Father in our 
behalf, and we see that we fall so far short. We feast on the righteousness of 
our blessed Redeemer. We can feast on that broken body, that blessed atonement 
that was made. That is eating and drinking at His table.  
 
 
Jesus is pleading with you and me to open the doors of our hearts so He can come 
in and share these dainties with us. By nature, our hearts are bolted shut. By 
nature we have no place for Him in our hearts. By nature we want to be filled 
with bitterness and revenge and with all the things of our old human nature.
 
We read in Revelation 3:20: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man 
hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, 
and he with me.”
 
That word behold means take notice. Do not overlook it. Do not forget to see it. 
In other words, I will come into your heart, and I will take you into that 
banqueting house of love, and I will have you feast at my table. I will have you 
feast on my blessed broken body, and I will have you feast on my perfect 
righteousness. 
 
 
The Lord Jesus Christ, having condescended so low, is knocking on our door. He 
is saying that if you will just open the door, He will enter.  That is the 
gospel. I am reading you this right out of the Word of God. This is the revealed 
will of God. This is where we must govern our lives.
 
If we have ever had any conception of what it is to fellowship in the Lord Jesus 
Christ, then we will have some understanding of what He said in John 15:14: “Ye 
are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.”  
 
 
The Lord Jesus’ meat is to do the will of His Father. That is His meat, and that 
is His drink. If we are going to sup with Him at His table, if we are going to 
be His friends, we are going to do whatever He commands us. Amen.
 
O Jesus, Thou art standing
Outside the fast-closed door,
In lowly patience waiting
To pass the threshold o’er;
Sham on us, Christian brothers,
His Name and sign who bear,
O shame, thrice shame upon us, 
To keep Him standing there!
William Walsham How, 1867