This Lord's Day we are privileged once again to not only hear Christ's gospel but to receive it in the tangible form of the Lord's Supper that we can touch, see, smell, and taste. What an accommodating God we truly have!

In that light, I just finished sending in my final edits to the publisher for a forthcoming book entitled, In Living Color: Pastoral Counsel on Images of Jesus  (Grandville: Reformed Fellowship, 2008). In it I quote from the mid-eighth century Council of Constantinople of 754 (aka, the Iconoclastic Conciliabulum ), which not only argued against images of Jesus, saying, "Whoever, then, makes an image of Christ, either depicts the Godhead which cannot be depicted, and mingles it with the manhood (like the Monophysites), or he represents the body of Christ as not made divine and separate and as a person apart, like the Nestorians," but the 332 who gathered for the Council went on to say something positive about the images God has  given us:

The only admissible figure of the humanity of Christ, however, is bread and wine in the holy Supper. This and no other form, this and no other type, has he chosen to represent his incarnation. Bread he ordered to be brought, but not a representation of the human form, so that idolatry might not arise.

As we come to the Lord's Table this Lord's Day, let us rejoice, for God has given us a tangible expression of our Lord and his gospel! Let us be content in humility with what he has given us in this earthly pilgrimage! Let us take advantage by faith of the grace offered and applied to us so ordinarily in bread and wine!

Come, believing sinners, for the table is ready. Taste and see that the Lord is good!