Come And Dine (Daily Devotional)

Shalom and welcome to our episode of Living Supernaturally. We have been mediating on God’s word through this entire week and we are glad to bring another one of the invitations of Jesus to you today, ‘come’. The invitation that we have today is ‘come and dine’. Let’s read from scripture from John chapter 21, verse 12, ‘Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast.” Yet none of the disciples dared ask Him, “Who are You?”—knowing that it was the Lord.’ There is a background to the verse and it maybe familiar to most of us here. After the resurrection of Jesus, Jesus appears and He stands on the shore of Tiberias and He is among fish and bread for breakfast and He invites the disciples to come and dine; in some versions it says, come and have breakfast. This saw what the Lord does in this invitation. It is just after the crucifixion of Jesus; we find that the disciples are very discouraged. They have been pulled back spiritually, they feel a sense of personal failure, they maybe feeling a sense of group failure for all that they have seen. There maybe shattered dreams and expectations there but that’s when Jesus brings about this invitation and this invitation is just not what it would mean, it has a more meaning than the apparent, literal one that it talks about. ‘Come and dine’ is an invitation for them to come to a point of meeting Him at His resurrected state. Jesus invites you and me to dine with Him. There is something really special to share a meal with someone. When you really want to get to know somebody, you invite them for dinner because you know that you have a fellowship with them. The kitchen table is a place for fellowship. You would bring a guest to the living room, but a person you want to have fellowship with, you would take them to a kitchen table. This invitation begins by us listening to the voice of the Lord and God is always speaking to our hearts, He is always inviting us, for us to meet with Him, to dine with Him, to have fellowship with Him, to be real with Him. This invitation was for a group of disheartened disciples and Jesus knew their discouragement and He came about to restore and encourage them and invites them to come and dine so that they could enjoy His fellowship, His presence, and His provisions. This invitation is for the weary, for the one who is struggling with those difficulties and can’t get past them. For those who come, you will find fellowship with Him. So, today, if you are experiencing weariness and discouragement, Jesus lays out a table of His goodness to you and says ‘come and dine.’ Let’s pray together, Heavenly Father, we thank you that you desire to fellowship with us so intimately, that you desire for us to be a real with you. Teach us to respond to your voice in the midst of all the chaos and the stress we are in. When we dine with you, we know that we are satiated in your presence. Thank you for your invitation in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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