{"id":616,"date":"2018-04-16T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/the-meal-i-servedwas-satisfying\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:13:27","slug":"the-meal-i-servedwas-satisfying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"The Meal I Served\u2026\u2026Was Satisfying & Nourishing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Still in the season of Easter for a couple more weeks until we recognize the time when Jesus ascended to heaven, I am still pondering His great love for us. After I had served Holy Communion yesterday morning at church, I heard in my heart \u201cYou just served Jesus.\u201d Yes, I did, but then I thought about two connotations of those words. We say \u201cI served Jesus by feeding the hungry at the local food pantry\u201d, or \u201cI served Jesus when I gave to the poor\u201d, or in yesterday\u2019s setting, \u201cI served Jesus as I served Holy Communion.\u201d That\u2019s what we do when we take on the servant nature of Jesus in loving, giving, serving others. Jesus gave the greatest example of servitude when He fed the hungry, healed the sick, cared for those in need, washed His disciples\u2019 feet, AND gave them to eat and drink His body and blood in the bread and the wine, and then gave them the command to continue doing the same.<\/p>\n

Matthew 26:26-18 \u201cJesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, \u201cTake and eat; this is my body.\u201d Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, \u201cDrink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.\u201d Luke 22:19 \u201cThis is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.\u201d <\/p>\n

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I am always overwhelmed in those moments with how much I want to help feed hope and pour love into the souls of those dear people. It’s a diverse crowd \u2013 culturally, ethnically, young and old — who make their way up the aisle to the \u201cdistribution center\u201d to receive a meal of Jesus. Each one comes with a look of gratitude to receive nourishment again of He Who said \u201cAs often as you do this, you are remembering me.\u201d (1 Corinthians 11:25). I see faces of joy and wonder and sometimes faces with deep furrows of sadness, and I offer up a silent prayer for them to be healed of whatever it is that is troubling them, and at the same time, I am offering to them God — the ONE Who yielded Himself to become one of us and to be sacrificed as a lamb on the altar, but this one and last time became the sacrifice that takes care of all our failures and shortcomings from now through eternity.<\/p>\n

I am always overwhelmed in those moments with how much I want to help feed hope and pour love into the souls of those dear people. It’s a diverse crowd \u2013 culturally, ethnically, young and old — make their way up the aisle to the \u201cdistribution center\u201d to receive a meal of Jesus. Each one comes with a look of gratitude to receive nourishment again of He Who said \u201cAs often as you do this, you are remembering me.\u201d I see faces of joy and faces of wonder and sometimes faces with deep furrows of sadness, and I offer up a silent prayer for them to be healed of whatever it is that is troubling them, and at the same time, I am offering to them God — the ONE Who yielded Himself to become one of us and to be sacrificed as a lamb on the altar, but this one and last time became the sacrifice that takes care of all our failures and shortcomings from now through eternity.<\/p>\n

This meal is satisfying, nourishing and never serves up indigestion or heart burn. Well, on the other hand, maybe there is a little heart burn, as when the two disciples said, \u201c”Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24:32. Please, Lord, may my heart burn with passion for You as Your heart burned with passion for me enough to give me YOU! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still in the season of Easter for a couple more weeks until we recognize the time when Jesus ascended to heaven, I am still pondering His great love for us. After I had served Holy Communion yesterday morning at church, I heard in my heart \u201cYou just served Jesus.\u201d Yes, I did, but then I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3148,3149,3150,3151,3152,3153,3154,3155,3156,3157,3158,3159,3160,3161],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-heart-burn","tag-holy-communion","tag-jesus-took-bread","tag-luke-2219","tag-luke-2432","tag-matthew-2626","tag-meal","tag-nourishing","tag-satisfying","tag-serve","tag-the-blood-of-christ","tag-the-body-of-christ","tag-this-is-my-body","tag-you-served-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8047,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/8047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}