Lyrics - Keep the Feast

[Verse 1]

Joyfully we join You at Your table

Pleading not our righteousness

By Your wealth of mercy we are able

Now to feast in confidence

[Chorus]

Take this bread and eat

Take this cup and drink

Remember how He loved us

Rejoice and keep the feast

[Verse 2]

Who is fit to feast with such a Savior?

Who His sandals could untie?

Who are we that He would show us favor?

Granting us this gift of life

Who stray, yet still we stray

[Verse 3]


Happy sign of friendship and reunion

With the blessed Three in One

Foretaste of that glorious communion

Vision of the world to come

Words and Music by Skye Peterson and Ben Shive

Bible Memory Verse

‘And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.’

Mark 14:22-24 ESV

Story Behind the Song

Watch Skye Peterson and Ben Shive introduce “Keep the Feast.”

Something to Think About

Recently some of my family came to visit us in Nashville for the Sing! Conference. In this photo you can see my parents and my brothers and then our daughter Charlotte. My sister Jenni couldn’t be with us but it’s funny Charlotte was there as she reminds me of my sister all the time! When we get together we love to gather round a table and share a meal. I’m sure you like that too? It’s one of our favorite things to do with our daughters.

The Bible is full of meal times. Full of feasts. In Genesis when Abraham first receives God’s promise there is a meal. And at the end of the Bible in Revelation we read of a great feast to come when all God’s people, from all of time, from all round the world will gather. Then in between those stories are many feasts to remember again what God has done, to commit again to walk as His people and to look forward to the hope to come.

Jesus told stories and performed miracles around many meal times. And when he talked of his coming death he used a meal to explain what would happen. Wine to share for his blood to be shed for us. Bread to share for His body broken for us. This is a feast we do not deserve. But is one he freely invites us to! And as this song reminds us we are to rejoice as we share in it.

Tahlia has been praying recently ‘Lord we know you love us. We love you too’. Just as a family gathers together loved and known around a table, Christ gathers us. We see in this special meal just how much He loves us. We love Him in return and rejoice in Him.

Prayer

Father in heaven,

Thank you for sending your Son to make a way for us to be in your family forever. As we sing this and remember the cross may we share our joy with one another and rejoice in all you have done. May we keep the feast!

In Jesus name,

Amen

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