Free Food

Isaiah 55:1 "Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

Wouldn't that be great if it was really true? Isaiah is talking, of course, not about physical food, but spiritual. In our default human condition we think we need to earn everything we get. Or we should get it because of some intrinsic value we possess.

Isaiah 55:2-3 Why do you spend money on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods. 3 Pay attention and come to Me; listen, so that you will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the promises assured to David.

So God says that if we come and listen to Him he will give us really great treats - a relationship that will last forever according to what God promised David, which was that one of his offspring would rule forever. That person is Jesus Christ.

Much later Jesus said:

John 6:35 "I am the bread of life," Jesus told them. "No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in Me will ever be thirsty again."

Jesus is the fulfillment of what the prophet was saying. The bread of life from Jesus comes free to us, not because we deserve it or have earned it. It costs us nothing but it cost God everything.

The table is set, why don't you have a seat and listen to the words of Jesus, the Bread of Life?

Pastor Tom