Travel: unforgettable meals

632 travel unforgettable meals

Many people who travel usually remember famous landmarks as highlights of their trip. You take photos, make photo albums or have them made. They tell their friends and relatives stories about what they have seen and experienced. My son is different. For him, the high points of the trips are the meals. He can precisely describe every course of every dinner. He really enjoys every fine meal.

You can probably remember some of your more memorable meals. You think of a particularly tender, juicy steak or freshly caught fish. It could have been a Far Eastern dish, enriched with exotic ingredients and seasoned with foreign flavors. Perhaps, for its simplicity, your most memorable meal is the homemade soup and crusty bread you once enjoyed in a Scottish pub.

Can you remember how you felt after this wonderful meal - the feeling of being full, satisfied and grateful? Hold on to this thought as you read the following verse from the Psalms: “Yes, I will praise you all my life, in prayer I will raise my hands to you and praise your name. Your closeness satisfies the hunger of my soul like a feast, with my mouth I want to praise you, yes, great joy comes from my lips "(Psalm 63,5 New Geneva translation).
David was in the desert when he wrote this and I'm sure he would have loved a feast of real food. But apparently he wasn't thinking of food, but of something else, of someone - God. For him the presence and love of God was just as fulfilling as a lavish banquet.
Charles Spurgeon wrote "In the Treasury of David": "In the love of God there is a wealth, a splendor, an abundance of soul-filling joy, comparable to the richest nourishment with which the body can be nourished."

As I pondered why David used the meal analogy to imagine what God's contentment could be like, I realized that what everyone on earth needs and can relate to is food. If you have clothes but are hungry, you are not satisfied. If you have a home, cars, money, friends - everything you could want - but you're hungry, none of that means anything. With the exception of those who have no food, most people know the satisfaction of having a good meal.

Food plays a central role in all of life's celebrations - births, birthday parties, graduations, weddings, and anything else we can find to celebrate. We even eat after abdication. The occasion for the first miracle of Jesus was a wedding feast lasting several days. When the prodigal son returned home, his father ordered a princely meal. In Revelation 19,9 it says: "Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb".

God wants us to think of him when we have had "the finest food". Our stomachs only stay full for a short time and then we are hungry again. But when we fill ourselves with God and his goodness, our souls will be satisfied forever. Feast on his word, dine at his table, enjoy the riches of his goodness and mercy, and praise him for his gift and kindness.

Dear reader, with your lips singing, let your mouth praise God, who nourishes and satisfies you as if with the most exuberant and abundant food!

by Tammy Tkach