Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from the group Sidewalk Prophets singing Come To the Table ... poignantly singing of God’s invitation to join our Lord forever at the table of life, to dine forever with all who’ve accepted God’s invitation to be in family of God.
Babette's Feast
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Highlight Verse[s]: John 6:51 [NKJV] ... 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
… God, thru His Son, invites one and all to come to His family table and partake of His eternal filling … but only those who will believe on His Son as Lord and Savior.
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Highlight Passage [context]: John 6:47-59 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… God, thru His Son’s finished work on the cross, invites all who would receive His Son as Lord, to come to HIs eternal love feast at the wedding feast of the Lamb of God.
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Reference Passage : … Romans 10:9-13 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… ANYONE can come the Lord’s table of life and dine with Him forever.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Amy Peterson uses a cinematic picture of the eternal love table we’re invited to share when we join the family of God. … The ODB author wrote: In the Danish film Babette’s Feast, a French refugee appears in a coastal village. Two elderly sisters, leaders of the community’s religious life, take her in, and for fourteen years Babette works as their housekeeper. When Babette comes into a large sum of money, she invites the congregation of twelve to join her for an extravagant French meal of caviar, quail in puff pastry, and more [see photo].
As they move from one course to the next, the guests relax; some find forgiveness, some find love rekindled, and some begin recalling miracles they’d witnessed and truths they’d learned in childhood. “Remember what we were taught?” they say. “Little children, love one another.” When the meal ends, Babette reveals to the sisters that she spent all she had on the food. She gave everything—including any chance of returning to her old life as an acclaimed chef in Paris—so that her friends, eating, might feel their hearts open.
The Danish film described in the ODB entry today is an apt cinematic picture of God’s invitation to dine with the entire family of God at the eternal banquet set for all those who’ve chosen to receive God’s invitation by receiving His saving grace as Paul described in Romans 10:9-13. As did Babette, God sacrificed His all to bring the faithful to His table of love.
And I pray here today that all reading here will join me at God’s table in Glory.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for inviting one-and-all to His table of love.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join our Lord at His table in glory. … Amen
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