The Unending Feasting

Esther 1:
5. And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people present (found) in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days in the court of the garden of the king’s palace

The last post was on throne and kingdom and kingdom. An everlasting kingdom in the offing. Scientists are, if unconsciously, are hastening the days of the kingdom; philosophers are agreed that something is about to give way in our cosmos; the religionists are pandering to it though only from the tip of their tongues; the prophets, real and fake, are announcing it. It will be absolute; a kingdom of new heavens and a new earth, according to Peter, whose bodily expression is righteousness (2 Peter 3:13).

Heaven is making the last moves for this purpose, showing her plain hand, co-opting as many as are called and chosen and faithful. And as the Holy Spirit baptizes man into Christ, the Lord is   saving to the uttermost.


Here we are today in Persia and Media kingdom where the sovereign lord has feasted the people for 180 days and now continue to feast many more in the palace at Shushan, that is, those found there – for another seven days. This is not a big deal for a kingdom of inexhaustible wealth. He feasts the inhabitants of Shushan in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.

Christ is the feasting that cannot be exhausted. Our feasting is in sharp contradiction to the feasting in Shushan, though. It’s not gorging ourselves with carnal meat and drink as we’ve been brought to understand. The feasting is about the ever increasing knowledge of and about Christ. Today, we know him in part and are just still scratching the surface. The greatest believer doesn’t have nor can have the absolute knowledge of the Lord; there’s no point in all eternity you can get to as the Numero uno of the believers and conclude that you’ve seen and known all about the Lord Jesus Christ In the full installation of the kingdom, we will just begin to learn, to feast on Him. Paul describes this ever increasing knowledge of Christ as excellent. “Yeah doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus…”(Philippians 3:8). Paul, having walked with, feasted on Him for more than three decades cried, “That I may know Him…” (verse 10). If after two thousand years, we’ve not been able to see the beginning of the greatness of Christ, think what the fullness of His kingdom will look like. Oh, the feast awaiting the redeemed of the Lord! I really want to know Him here; my feasting starts from here. I want to know the power of His resurrection; I want to know the fellowship in sharing in His sufferings; I want to experience what it’s like to die like He did. “and so, somehow, attain to the resurrection from the dead” (verse 11, NIV). The resurrection here referred by Paul, according to bible scholars, should be rendered out-resurrection. This, according to Vine, is “not the physical resurrection which is assured to believers hereafter, but the present life of identification with Christ in His resurrection” (Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary). I may not be able to understand all of this for now, but, Lord, I sure know that it’s part of the feasting which is not a one time event in the future but an ongoing process that will culminate to being fully taking up Your identity.


Thank you Lord for processing me into the final product that is You. I don’t entertain the thought that I might fail; You are the One holding me to Yourself. May I learn to be utterly yielded to You and relax myself in your sure grips