When was the last time you celebrated with a great feast? Did this feast satisfy you, or did it leave you wanting something more? Do you find it easier to celebrate and feast or to mourn and grieve?
Our lives are often so filled with mourning and grief. It is easier at times to grieve or mourn than it is to celebrate in this fallen and broken world. And when we do celebrate or feast, we can find ourselves being disappointed, let down, or longing for more.
In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis famously stated: "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
King Solomon in all his wisdom spoke of our longing for eternity, saying, “God has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11, ESV).
God desires to feast with his people and is preparing for us a great heavenly banquet, which will satisfy us for eternity.
God spoke through the Prophet Isaiah, saying, “On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.” (Isaiah 25:6, ESV).
The psalmist, King David, writes, “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” (Psalm 23:5-6, ESV).
Jesus also spoke to his people in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son…” (Matthew 22:1-2, ESV).
God compares the kingdom of heaven to a great wedding feast. Eternity will be a satisfying banquet feast of great joy and celebration, which will not leave us longing for more. God’s great feast will satisfy us and make us content forever as we will have all we need and desire fulfilled in him.
May we anticipate eternity with great longing as we look forward to the great wedding feast of God, which will exceed all that we can ask for, think of, or imagine in Christ Jesus our Lord.
A Collect for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, or the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 23): “O God, our refuge and strength, true source of all godliness: Graciously hear the devout prayers of your Church, and grant that those things which we ask faithfully, we may obtain effectually; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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