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Come dine with me
'You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies' Psalm 23:5
You must've seen it: the programme where five wannabe Jamie Olivers put their best recipes together in the hope of getting their oven gloves on a 1,000 pound cash prize. But Come Dine With Me is textbook for illustrating that there's more to dinner than grub. It's about sharing hearts and lives.
John 21 sees Jesus and Peter having a celestial Come Dine With Me moment. Our Pete should be the last person at Jesus' dinner soiree; after all, he has just blown out Jesus three times in public.
However, Jesus has some serious mending to do. Rather than snubbing his mate, our Saviour sets up a beach barbecue, gets a fire burning, and starts grilling some fish. There's more going on here than a disciple getting a fish-finger to stop his tummy rumbling. This is about Jesus giving Peter what he most needs - to be fed, to be healed, to be restored and reinstated.
Have you slipped up badly? Jesus invites you to come dine with him; to be fed by His Word; to be healed by His touch; to be restored by His forgiveness. Now, what about those of us who think we're safe from falling? Peter had said the same, right up until a rooster crowed. The devil is a rabid dog chained up. He can't sink his teeth unless we enter his circle: 'Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you' (Jas 4:7 NIV).
written by Bob Gass
'You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies' Psalm 23:5
You must've seen it: the programme where five wannabe Jamie Olivers put their best recipes together in the hope of getting their oven gloves on a 1,000 pound cash prize. But Come Dine With Me is textbook for illustrating that there's more to dinner than grub. It's about sharing hearts and lives.
John 21 sees Jesus and Peter having a celestial Come Dine With Me moment. Our Pete should be the last person at Jesus' dinner soiree; after all, he has just blown out Jesus three times in public.
However, Jesus has some serious mending to do. Rather than snubbing his mate, our Saviour sets up a beach barbecue, gets a fire burning, and starts grilling some fish. There's more going on here than a disciple getting a fish-finger to stop his tummy rumbling. This is about Jesus giving Peter what he most needs - to be fed, to be healed, to be restored and reinstated.
Have you slipped up badly? Jesus invites you to come dine with him; to be fed by His Word; to be healed by His touch; to be restored by His forgiveness. Now, what about those of us who think we're safe from falling? Peter had said the same, right up until a rooster crowed. The devil is a rabid dog chained up. He can't sink his teeth unless we enter his circle: 'Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you' (Jas 4:7 NIV).
written by Bob Gass
