"Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." Paul wrote these words to the Church in Corinth. When you're eating and drinking do it for the glory of God. Is there anything more human than eating and drinking? Is there anything more biblical? We start the Bible with a story of people eating, ushering in the downfall humanity and we end with people eating, at the marriage supper of the Lamb, ushering in the new creation. And in the middle, Jesus.
"The Son of Man has come eating and drinking," Jesus said of himself. Isn't that so true? He eats at the homes of tax collectors, pharisees and dear friends. He feeds 5,000. He provides the finest wine for a wedding feast. At the last, he shares a meal with the disciples, a meal which spoke of his coming crucifixion and echoes through the ages to us today. The resurrected Jesus ate a barbecued fish on the beach and shared a meal with the disciples on the Emmaus road. Why?
Food and drink is glorious. It speaks of God's great provision. His continual gracious feeding of us. It speaks of his promise to meet the needs of the thirsty and hungry. And it unites us. It is around our Lord's supper that we find the dividing wall broken down as we share in his broken body. I hope you all enjoyed our times of feasting together on Wednesday and Sunday as much as I did. Those very human meals did more good to us than we know.
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