Isaiah 25:6-10
On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare
a feast of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
the best of meats and the finest of wines.
On this mountain he will destroy
the shroud that enfolds all peoples,
the sheet that covers all nations;
he will swallow up death forever.
The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears
from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace
from all the earth.
The LORD has spoken.
In that day they will say,
“Surely this is our God;
we trusted in him, and he saved us.
This is the LORD, we trusted in him;
let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”
The hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain;
but Moab will be trampled in their land
as straw is trampled down in the manure.
• The reign of God is often likened to a feast or a banquet where all peoples are fed, without entry requirements or conditions. In fact, all people are fed “rich food.” Reflect on your own experience of offering food to someone who is hungry.
• Consider your own experience of hunger. Can you remember a time when you went without food for an extended period of time? What was it like to have food before you at the end of that extended period of hunger? (Perhaps even a meager meal seemed like a feast!)
• Take a moment to reflect on your current relationship with food. How do you think of food? How do you use food?
• Obviously, hunger and feasting are actual states. But they are also important symbols in spiritual living. Take a moment to reflect on hunger and feasting as spiritual symbols. Perhaps find your own vocabulary for the two. Connect with what it means to be driven by hunger . . . and what it means to be satiated by feasting.
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