Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Is what you’re looking for what you need?

Morning: Psalms 97, 99; Jeremiah 17:19-27; Romans 7:13-25
Evening: Psalm 94; John 6:16-27

After the miracle of feeding 5,000 people, they came looking for Jesus – he challenged them that they were just interested in getting more bread.  As a teenager, while travelling in the US, I stayed in a few Salvation Army hostels.  In one, to get breakfast you had to listen to a sermon.  I recall being deeply affected by the sermon, but the breakfast was so terrible I couldn’t eat it.  The thing you seek may not be the thing you need.  As Fred Buechner writes somewhere: You may be looking in the fridge for a cure for spiritual hunger.

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