Eating with Jesus
Does snow disappear from the Lebanon peaks?
Do alpine streams run dry?
But my people have left me
to worship the Big Lie. ~ Jeremiah 18:14-15 (MSG)
Look at me. I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear me call and open the door, I’ll come right in and sit down to supper with you. ~ Revelation 3:20 (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord wants us to be in close fellowship with him.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for pursuing fellowship with us -- with me. Most days I hear you knocking at my door.
But some of the days I am too busy with my agenda to get up and open it. My priorities are too messed up. Help me to rethink and respond appropriately to your faithfulness and your invitations. I'm eager to eat with you all day,
every day. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
