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marbella3 70F
2480 posts
10/21/2019 5:17 am

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10/22/2019 9:06 am

A Feast of Love

Bible in a Year:

Isaiah 62–64
1 Timothy 1
I am the living bread that came down from heaven.

John 6:51

John 6:47–59
In the Danish film Babette’s Feast, a French refugee appears in a coastal village. Two elderly sisters, leaders of the community’s religious life, take her in, and for years Babette works as their housekeeper. When Babette comes into a large sum of , she invites the congregation of twelve to join her for an extravagant French meal of caviar, quail in puff pastry, and more.

As they move from one course to the next, the guests relax; some find forgiveness, some find love rekindled, and some begin recalling miracles they’d witnessed and truths they’d learned in childhood. “Remember what we were taught?” they say. “Little , love one another.” When the meal ends, Babette reveals to the sisters that she spent all she had on the food. She gave everything—including any chance of returning to her old life as an acclaimed chef in Paris—so that her friends, eating, might feel their hearts open.

Jesus appeared on earth as a stranger and servant, and He gave everything so that our spiritual hunger might be satisfied. In John’s gospel, He reminds His listeners that when their ancestors wandered hungry in the wilderness, God provided quail and bread (Exodus ). That food satisfied for a time, but Jesus promises that those accept Him as the “bread of life” will “live forever” (John 6:48, 51). His sacrifice satisfies our spiritual cravings.

Reflect & Pray
How has God satisfied your hunger? What might it look like for you to give sacrificially?

Jesus, thank You for giving Your body and blood for us.


MrsJoe 76F
17308 posts
10/21/2019 1:57 pm

When I have given sacrificially, I always find that I gained far more than what I had given up.

Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.


starwomyn 70F
8871 posts
10/22/2019 6:48 am

    Quoting MrsJoe:
    When I have given sacrificially, I always find that I gained far more than what I had given up.
so true

Abracadabra