The Permanent Guests

“If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him” (John 14:23). Fall 2025 Communion Season

“Our abode.” The soul that once kept Christ outside, by grace becomes His dwelling. There is a quiet miracle hidden in this promise.

Nervous, we think He comes like a house inspector, but He comes as a Friend to help. He sits at the table of the heart, no longer knocking, but planning, doing. The believer feels the difference. There is a peaceableness now, a holy joy in the heart.

Dear ones, the Lord’s Supper is a Presence, receive it.

Sometimes in the stillness after the sermon, sometimes in the tears of a psalm, sometimes in a single blessing remembered in the Table call. The Spirit breathes his arrival in the bread and wine.

The Spirit teaches us new manners in this abode: to keep the rooms swept with repentance, to set the table daily with prayer, garnished with the fruit of the Spirit, listening for His voice moving from room to room.

The wonder is this: we, who would never go to Him, are met by Him who comes to us, and abides.

O Christ, make Thyself at home in this heart that so often wanders.
Let every thought be a lamp kept burning for Thee.