Meat for the Hungry

To you, my friend. Every person who reads one of my posts is my friend. I don't know you, and the reality is, you don’t know me, but I love you. You may live a thousand miles away or across the street, yet if you know or want to know my L ORD and Savior, Jesus Christ, you are my friend, and we are family. How is that possible? Ephesians tells us “…we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.” [1] I know this concept is hard to understand, so let’s think of a human body. There are many parts, hands, feet, arms, legs, eyes, nose, and mouth. There are also parts we keep covered, and even parts inside that we do not see. Well… It’s the same with the body of Christ. God speaking through Paul calls our body parts members, “For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.” [2] What’s Almighty God saying? His point is even though we are different, and God has given us different spiritual gifts, w...

         I’ve always loved the movie The Hiding Place —Hollywood’s version of the life of Christian author and speaker Corrie Ten Boom and her family. The Ten Boom’s were arrested for hiding and helping Jews during the German occupation of Holland in World War II. Betrayed by Hollanders who prided themselves in obeying German law, the Ten Boom family spent several years in concentration camps. God graciously rescued Corrie, but most of her family died there.         More recently, I found another movie, The Zookeeper’s Wife , a true account of Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who also hid Jews when the Germans occupied Poland. Yad Vashem in Israel aptly recognized them with the “Righteous Among The Nations” honor.          I love Israel. And it breaks my heart to see the unquenched resurgence of anti-Semitism in New York City. Or to be reminded of Jews suffering at the hands of pure evil—Hitler and his Naz...