Greetings and salutations
It’s the last of October. Two months to a brand new year. Where will you be? We can plan, but God directs our steps.
Here’s today’s nougat
Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come buy and eat!
Come buy wine and milk
without money and without price. Isaiah 55.1
A favorite of mine. Yet not so easily understood on one level. In our capitalist materialistic world it is exceptionally hard to imagine bartering for even the essentials of life. And if out were an ordinary invitation, then we would be worrying about human trafficking and other horrors.
But God bids us come.
The same God who instructed Moses to speak water out of a rock.
The same God who fed Elijah via a raven and a poor widow
The same God who fed John the Baptist in the wilderness with locusts and honey
The same God who fed 5000 with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish
The same God who sent Saul the persecutor to be nurtured by those he persecuted
The same God who provided manna and quail to the refugees of old
The same God who saw the Egyptian slave girl in the wilderness and called her by name
The same God invites us now, to come.
It’s scary, exhilarating, terrible amazing!
Come.
In Christ’s love and grace . . .
