A meal to remember

Morning: Psalm 37:2-18; Isaiah 7:1–9; 2 Thessalonians 2.1-12

Evening: Psalm 37:19-42; Amos 9:1-10; Luke 22:1-13

Last night friends invited us to dinner … a lovely chance to get better acquainted, and an opportunity to share honest challenges.  When Jesus wants to give his disciples a way to understand and remember him, he gives them not a talk but a meal.  At Passover, Jewish people celebrate their rescue from Egyptian oppression. Jesus now offers himself to deliver humanity from the power of evil.  In a meal with his friends before being betrayed and called a liar, Jesus gives us a meal by which to remember that the power of evil is defeated; its days are numbered.