Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
In age as obsessed with sex as are our own it is not hard to understand why everybody invests sex with religious significance. Non-religious people tend to fancy that sex is shockingly profane (that is, they think that it is somehow anti-religious). Christians, meanwhile, labor more or less continually to remind the non-religious that sex is an integral component of the sacrament of marriage. In short, in one way or another, it isn’t hard to see that this bodily function has something to do with the sacred, it is only hard for some people to see what exactly the connection is. However, another bodily function is often overlooked entirely not only by non-Christians but by Christians as being every bit as sacred (if not more so) than sex. That bodily function is called “eating.” Amazingly, Genesis links the origin of sin, not with sex, but with eating (“God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil”). Even more startling, the New Testament links our salvation with eating as well (“Take, eat: this is my body.”) And Scripture is replete with images of our heavenly destiny as — what else? — a banquet. Remember that the next time you sit down to dinner. You were participating in a tiny foreshadow of the great feast which shall be at the end of time. Come and dine.