Dayrooms are always crowded and there is rarely a seat available unless you mark you a seat. How often have you seen someone mark their seat with a book or a cup? I have witnessed people mark a seat at 3 a.m. breakfast time for a noon football game or afternoon movie. Then I have seen people who are so accustomed to sitting in a particular seat in the dayroom, that if someone sits in “their seat”, they will immediately and sometimes rudely, tell the person that is sitting there, “That’s my seat!” I remember going to church with my mother and grandmother and I would see some of the sweetest church ladies become the meanest church ladies if someone was sitting in their usual seat at church. They would give someone an “evil eye” about sitting in their seat.
In 2 Samuel 4:4, and 2 Samuel 9, we read the story of Mephibosheth, his tragedy, and his story. We read about how King David showed Mephibosheth an act of kindness and grace, allowing him a seat forever at the king’s table with the rest of the king’s children. Mephibosheth, like most of us, had a life full of could have been or should have been, but Mephibosheth was physically handicapped, so he also lived a life of shame and regret. We may not be physically handicapped like Mephibosheth, but we have inward handicaps of emotional or mental abuse because of what we may have been through in life. We see all our flaws and Satan tries to make us feel unworthy of God’s love, forgiveness, and grace.
King David sent for Mephibosheth through an act of grace because of the friendship covenant he made with his father, Jonathan. King David and Jonathan were best friends. King David told Mephibosheth that he would always be able to sit and eat at the king’s table.
The enemy tells us that we have to get cleaned up to get to God, but the devil is a liar! All we have to do is come to God and he will do the job of cleaning us up!! God made a covenant with Jesus Christ, and we get in on that covenant by faith. We are saved by grace through faith, and that not of ourselves.
Like Mephibosheth, it does not matter how broken or flawed we are, all we have to do is get to King Jesus, the King of Kings, and we will be given a place at His table. We have a seat reserved and marked with our name on it for all of eternity that no one but us can sit in! There we can dine like one of His children. At His table, all of God’s children have a seat because of what Jesus did at Calvary.
I want you to know that there is a seat in eternity for you! People may say, “He’s a thief, a robber, a drug user, an alcoholic,” but God says, “I have a seat for you!”
Today is the day of salvation! Accept Jesus Christ today as your Lord and Savior, so that one day you can sit at the King’s table! The next time someone is sitting in your seat here on earth, let them have it, because God has a seat for you that no one else can take!!
