Saturday, August 16, 2008

"Just before dawn Paul urged them all to eat. "For the last fourteen days," he said, "you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food—you haven't eaten anything. Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head." After he said this, he took some bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat. They were all encouraged and ate some food themselves. Altogether there were 276 of us on board. When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea."

From the verse, I gathered that:

It pleased the Lord to create food for us that we may become blessed and strengthened and that our soul may be refreshed. For before the men had consumed the food, they were without strength and in suspense in the middle of the tempest. Yet after they had eaten unto the Lord with thanks, they began to have the strength and motivation to do something and try again instead of just despairing because their previous few attempts to lighten the ship had failed.

As God loves His feasts, so does He expect us to enter into the joyfulness of eating and drinking [ in moderation of course ;) ] that He Himself may be glorified through the creative preparation of food and the thanks we render to God for beautiful flavours and exciting aromas. Even God uses bread and wine to symbolise the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ our Lord.

May the Lord bless all food lovers around the world! Amen.

Below was a 4 course dinner meal that I prepared for my family a few weeks back. I hope to be able to open up for more dinners for more people. You may let me know if you are interested =) It should cost about $10++ per person. Cheers =)