The Food of Heaven

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.” (1 John 4:7)

            There is something tantalizingly about trying food from another country.  Indian, Irish, Thai, Iranian, Pakistani, Italian, or Chinese… to try the food of a nation is to get a little taste of who they are and their culture.  The smells, the ingredients, the tastes: they all connect you to a new world – or if a native far from home, a meal from your nation of origin can transport you across foreign fields to your mother’s kitchen.

            Love is the food of heaven.  It is straight from the table of God.  To love others, to radically love those who neither deserve it nor, at times, even want it is to eat a meal from your Father’s table.  When we love one another, we learn something about God, and we come to know Him better.

Matthew 4:4 #Biblebites

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