Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Hunger.

This is Sara Miles:

She started a food pantry in San Francisco. She believes that food is one of the most powerful tools to bring people into community with Jesus. I like food and I like Jesus. In a few weeks a friend and I are going to go volunteer for half the day at the food pantry and I am SO excited about it. She wrote a book about her stories there called "Jesus Freak" and here are some of my favorite things she said:

"God doesn't need me to take care of everyone. God just needs me to recognize Jesus whenever He shows up and say 'hi'."

"Jesus gave us the authority to heal as He sent us out. He doesn't show us how to make the blind see, or even drive out demons. But He shows us how to enter into a life in which the broken and held in love. In which the deepest desires of our hearts draw us to health. don't be afraid, he said, your faith has made you well."

"I realized who Jesus often asks the desperate people who came to Him 'do you want to be well'. Do you want to be well even if it hurts? Do you want to be well if it separates you from your own identity? Do you want to be well more than you want to stay the same? Real healing means following the truth."

"Jesus is real, and so praise God, are we. Every single thing the resurrected Jesus does on earth He does through our bodies. You are fed, you are healed, you are forgiven, you are pronounced clean. You are loved and you are raised from the dead. Go and do likewise."

The last quote was the very last paragraph of the book and it make me tear up.

God is so beyond me and I'll never get enough of Him.


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