When patients at the hospital aren’t able to eat or drink for a day, or sometimes for many weeks, they can get really desperate. I knew of one lady who bit her IV tubing in half and was sucking on the fluids because she wanted to drink something.
It always strikes me because there’s no high-tech science involved in what they want from the doctor, just some beef broth or a soda cracker. Everyone shares this elemental human need — the billionaire sheiks, the homeless people, right down to you and me taking our breakfast this morning.
It’s so just down-to-earth.
It strikes me also because it’s a prominent part of heaven. Once God has rescued all who follow him (and everyone is invited to) from all the injustices of this life, after the Great Judgment of the living and the dead concludes, when the old heavens and earth pass away and the new ones come, we eat and drink. (Revelation 19:9, Matt 25:1-13)
It makes one wonder what kind of God this is whose heart is so down-to-earth that one of his promises about endless paradise is we feast!
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