A Place at the King’s Table

A Place at the King’s Table

You therefore, and your sons and your servants, shall work the land for him, and you shall bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth your master’s son shall eat bread at my table always.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

2 Samuel 9:10

As we consider the account of David and his interactions with Mephibosheth, we come today to consider another way in which David both mirrored and modeled Christ. After David had restored ‘all the land of Saul,’ to Mephibosheth, he gave the management of the estate into the hands of ‘Ziba the servant of Saul.’ He liberated Mephibosheth from the burden of having to manage the holdings. Instead David said, ‘”You therefore, and your sons and your servants, shall work the land for him,and you shall bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth your master’s son shall eat bread at my table always.”  Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.’ The significant portion of the verse for our consideration today is, ‘But Mephibosheth your Master’s son shall eat bread at my table always.’ This is important for us to contemplate because it touches upon our relationship to Christ. David accepted Mephibosheth unconditionally. He completely restored all that his ancestor Saul had forfeited. He then, gave Mephibosheth a permanent place a the King’s table. What the king had enacted, no one else could alter. So Christ does with us. He accepts us unconditionally. He restores all that our ancestor Adam had forfeited. He also gives us a place at the King’s Table, from which no one can remove us. Here we see the gracious behavior of the king demonstrating the Gracious Behavior of the King of Kings. What David did for Mephibosheth, Christ has done for us.

High King of Heaven,
we rejoice that You raise us up, that You welcome us in,
and that You seat us in Your Banqueting Hall
and feed us at Your Sumptuous Table.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning