Feed Just One

“When you hold a banquet invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous." Luke 14:13-14

We are the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, Jesus is inviting to the most inconceivably joyous heavenly banquet that lasts forever. Nothing we can do or give or give up, can ever repay Jesus who gave His life in the most excruciating, humiliating way, just so we can join Him.

No one is more generous than Jesus. And  when we give, we are just responding to His goodness. Here in Luke 14 He is merely asking us to echo His generosity in a small way. When we are generous to those who cannot repay us, we do it to Him as well. (Matthew 25:40) 

Jesus talked a lot about money. He said that we should store up treasures in heaven, not here on earth where it could easily disappear. A building can get burned down, stocks could lose value in a single day, jewelry can get stolen, money even in the bank loses its value from inflation!!! 

Jesus said that where our treasure is, that is where our heart is. (Luke 12:34) If we want to see where our heart is, we only need to look at our checkbook, our bank account.

Perhaps it is time to think purposefully about where our money goes. To put it where it cannot be stolen, where it cannot burn, where it will not devalue, or rust. I'm thinking inmates in prison, young children who need an education, livelihood projects, streetchildren. They can all be beneficiaries of our generosity and kindness. And it's not a matter of how much money we have either. As Mother Teresa used to say, “If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”

“Preaching to myself”