Based on John 6:35,48-50
What does an MRE give you? Well, it gives you a longing for home-cooked meals. But it also gives you sustenance until your tummy growls at you, and you are reminded that you need to eat again. But what do we eat when our souls and our hearts growl, reminding us of this aching hole that longs to be filled with the bread of forgiveness for that guilt?
Well, sometimes we fill it with foods that are unhealthy. When we feel guilty, we go to the spiritual grocery store, and sometimes we look at this aisle, and we sometimes punish our bodies by just working really, really hard in the gym. Or maybe we go to the other side of the grocery aisle, and we overindulge in substances, or we binge on inappropriate videos or engage in non-committed physical relationships—anything and everything that might help us forget about the guilt. And it works, for a little bit. But it never really satisfies that guilt, never fills that God-sized hole in our hearts and our minds and our souls.
So, my friends, I invite you to come and eat and drink
of Jesus. When your heart and your conscience growl with hunger for forgiveness, let an MRE remind you of the only food that gives life