The Table – Connection Impact

“Gathered around the table, stories are told, memories are created, and love is abundantly grown.” The Heaping Harvest

In Psalm 23, the Lord speaks about a table where He will prepare a feast for us. You may not know this, but this table is significant in relation to our marriages. Let me explain.

When a couple gets married, they form a new unit and entity. This united entity can be compared to the table the Lord prepares for us.

The table represents the place where God wants to spend time with us as married couples, sharing His heart. His deepest desire is to walk with you and your spouse the way He did with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. He wants to teach you about married life and Him. Importantly, He wants to have these conversations in a place of connection and relaxation. A table is such a place. A place where we sit down to spend time with one another, where we focus only on one another, away from all distractions. God is inviting you as a married couple: “Come and sit down at the table I have prepared for you, I want to spend time with you.”

So, what happens when you and your partner join God at this table?
*You will start to focus more on Him as a couple.
*You will be transformed more and more to the likeness of the Lord. The more time you spend with Him, the more you will reflect on Him.
*You will strengthen your commitment and dedication to Him.
*You will be able to move on from the past and start a new journey.
*Your relationship with one another will deepen and strengthen.
*You will grow in your faith.
*You will have more hope.
*Your lives will become more intertwined with God: His plans, desires, and passions will become yours.

When you sit together at God’s table, He will prepare you for the times to come. He will plant His vision in your hearts. Soon, you will realise that this life and your earthly marriage merely point to the marriage between the Lamb and the Bride that is yet to come, when Jesus returns. As you see and experience His love and unity at the table, you will start to understand that your marriage is not only for you and your spouse but for the expansion of the Kingdom of God. You will realise that marriage means to, let go of what is important to you, and that sacrifice stands central to marriage.

The table you share with God will become a light in the dark world and people will be drawn to it. In this way, your marriage becomes the vessel through which the Lord shows His unfathomable love to a broken and desperate world.

Furthermore, if you spend time with Him in this way as a couple, you will be blessed in the way He seems best. Then, out of this position of abundance you will be encouraged to bless others. This is exactly what He wants us to do.

A marriage cultivated and pruned at God’s table can become the voice calling the lost and anyone who’s strayed from God into a relationship with the Host at the table. Why wouldn’t you want to accept such an invitation?

Questions to think and talk about:
1. Are you spending time as a couple at the table of the Lord? If not, what’s keeping you?
2. If you are, what are the three most important things that you have learned as a couple at the Lord’s table? How can you spend more time at the table?
3. In what way is your marriage reflecting the marriage that is to come?