The man who makes it his life mission to avoid death is a lonely seed. He’s a grain of wheat insisting to stay on the sidewalk. He won’t take the death plunge into the dirt and therefore he will never know abundance. He will never know what it is like to come up with plenty of friends and food surrounding. Jesus said that if a grain of wheat does not fall to the ground, then it remains alone, but if it falls to the ground and dies it brings forth much fruit (John 12:24). This is a table of death for at it every week we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes. This is a table of breaking, of crushing and fermentation. Because the seed of the woman fell to the ground, this table now feeds the many seeds of that woman. 

But to partake at the table of death is partake of Christ’s death. And that death is the only death before you. But it is still a death before you. You must die daily and you will one day die physically. But in both cases, that death you are dying is Christ’s death. You do not live but Christ lives in you (Galatians 2:20). And by the same measure, it is Christ in you all the way to the grave and all the way through the grave. So come to death’s table in peace. Come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ.

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