JUST A CRUMB

 

Recently I went to pick up my two darlings to spend the morning with me. It was fairly early...8 a.m....and as we were leaving my DIL told me that they hadn't eaten breakfast yet. They had just been having a slow morning. My response was not a problem and I would feed them as soon as they got hungry...and off we went to Grammie's house!

We get about halfway to our house amidst much chatter. Then my Aideney says, "Meme, I am really hungry." And staying true to form my Charleston agrees with big brother..."Yes, Meme we are really hungry!" So I told them  that as soon as we got to Meme's house we could fix some breakfast. But that fell on deaf ears. They repeated that they were REALLY hungry. So in an attempt to turn the conversation another direction until we made it to the house I said, " Well my darlings, did you have a big dinner last night?" And then came the unexpected and quite hilarious answer..."No, JUST A CRUMB!" Just let me repeat Aiden's answer...No, just A crumb"..."A CRUMB!" and then the other sweet voice said, "Yes, Meme. Aiden and me just got A crumb! He's telling you the truth!" These two always have each other's back. God bless us when they get to their teenage years!! LOL! Just general information so none of you are concerned. Upon arrival at Meme's house I fed my grands and the next day I called my son to offer financial help so they could go buy groceries!! Couldn't pass that up!!

In my grands lives there are "no crumbs". The image of "just a crumb" seemed to stick in my mind especially with the Thanksgiving holiday coming upon us so quickly. Just as the phrase "just a crumb" stuck with me the word "feast" kept rolling around my brain. And then God turned my mind to thoughts of Him and the word "feast". Let me set a table for you. Imagine all of your loved ones sitting around God's table. But imagine instead of food on the table there are God's promises. Do you see "a crumb" or "a feast"? Now sit back and imagine that same table filled with God's forgiveness...feasts of all feasts! So much forgiveness it is falling down the table onto the ground! What would a table of protection belonging to God look like if he invited us to partake? It wouldn't be an old worn out, alcohol drinking, part time security guard..."a crumb"...it would be a "feast". The FBI, CIA, Secret Service, all of the military, and police and more if you can imagine that in your mind! I am confident that you, like me, are starting to envision the "feasts" God has prepared for you, me, for all his children. The finest of feast tables of blessings, mercy, steadfastness, love. God doesn't offer us "a crumb" with him. When we sit at the table of God He gives us "a feast"...the finest of feasts from the table of the King of Kings for all of his prince and princess.

I am praying with you and for you that you will see not "just a crumb" on your table during this upcoming Thanksgiving but as the "finest of feasts" fit for the children of the King of Kings!

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.  Isaiah 25:6