“Lot prepared a feast for them, complete with fresh bread made without yeast, and they ate” (Genesis 19:3).
A CONSTANT SOURCE OF FOOD (Pt 2)
We saw previously that our heavenly Father always has his storeroom full of food for his children to eat, and we can add that the food is always fresh, it’s never stale but new every morning.
The two angels who paid a visit to Lot’s house ate fresh bread newly baked—a good picture of heavenly food, it’s always freshly baked. The Lord has something good to share with us each day and it’s important that we don’t live on yesterday’s blessings but pick up the new manna each new day.
Moses said to them, “’No one is to keep any of it until morning’ However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell” (Exod 16:19).
Some folk may have been blessed, and blessed mightily, some years ago but if they don’t move forward as the Lord wants, the old blessings will hinder us, if we live in the past we will miss the present blessings. Jesus bids us to follow him, that means he is moving, and we should follow him, moving with him.
He has fresh blessings for us, deeper teachings that we need to learn. “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand” (John 13:7), said Jesus to Peter. Peter is a good example for us all, for he continued to moved forward learning and growing as he went.
One day Peter was hungry and while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners. In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds. Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.” “No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean” (Acts 10:13–14).
The Lord was using Peter’s hunger to reveal an important lesson to him. Peter saw the same vision three times. Then suddenly three men turned up looking for Peter.
Suddenly the lesson began to make sense to Peter, so he went with the three men to a prominent Roman army officer’s house. Once there Peter said, “You know it is against our laws for a Jewish man to enter a Gentile home like this or to associate with you. But God has shown me that I should no longer think of anyone as impure or unclean… I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right” (Acts 10:28, 34-35).
Peter had some good fresh food given to him in more ways than one.
Jesus said, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me” (Rev 3:20). We see that Jesus is a guest who is happy to bring along fresh food with him.
Several days after the resurrection Jesus stood on the edge of the water and called out to the boat that Peter, Thomas, and few other disciples were aboard, asking if they’d caught any fish, they answered with a glum, “no.” Jesus suggested lowering their net on the right side of the boat and when they did, it filled up quickly. as the fishermen made their way to shore they saw some coals on fire with fish cooking above them and some bread. Jesus said, “Come and have breakfast, and bring some of those fish too” (John 21:9–10).
Let’s praise the Lord that we have good fresh food from him each and every day.