John 4:31 Meanwhile the disciples were
urging him, "Rabbi, eat something." 32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat
that you do not know about." 33 So the disciples said to one another,
"Surely no one has brought him something to eat?" 34 Jesus said
to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his
work. 35
Do you not say, 'Four months more, then comes the harvest'? But I tell
you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36 The reaper
is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that
sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and
another reaps.' 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not
labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
In
an 1863 essay Concerning Spiritualism and
Materialism,
Ludwig Feuerbach wrote: "Der Mensch ist, was er ißt.", which
translates into English as 'man is what
he eats'. A more modern form of this “You are what you eat”.
Jesus
says this long before Feuerbach. He says that he “eats” the will of God and becomes
what he should be. This then is the invitation for us all: if we want to be
like Jesus we must make obedience to the will of God our overriding passion.
Prayer
We offer
and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a
reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee; humbly beseeching thee that
we, and all others who shall be partakers of this Holy Communion, may worthily
receive the most precious Body and Blood of thy Son Jesus Christ, be filled
with thy grace and heavenly benediction, and made one body with him, that he
may dwell in us, and we in him.. Amen
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
in 1549
Ordinary 33 / Pentecost +26
55 See...Judge...Act
The Scripture passage for
the day is drawn from Reuben Job and Norman Shawchuck, A Guide to Prayer
for Ministers and other Servants, (Nashville, The Upper Room 1983), 335.
This reflection is from my own
devotional exercises for the day.
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