Isaiah 55:1-3 Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink—even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk—it’s all free!
Heavenly Father, we need to hear and heed your invitation to the free banquet of grace three times a day—breakfast, lunch, and suppertime. Thank you for staying dialed into our needs, and for being generous with your provision. There’s no fast-food or leftovers at the table of your hospitality, for your mercies are new every morning and the manna of grace is ever fresh.
2 Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good?
We don’t take these two questions lightly, Father. Why, in view of the culinary wonders of your heart, do we prefer to pay for things that only give us a sugar rush and caffeine high? Instant gratification over good nourishment never bodes well. Change our taste buds, Father. Make us insatiably hungry for what you alone can give us in Jesus.
Listen to me, and you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the finest food. 3 “Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life.
As this day begins, and continues, we will incline our hearts to your liberating, soul-satisfying voice. By the Holy Spirit, may your voice be louder than every “food truck” offering us cheap snacks that will cost us more than we can afford.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.
Father, all we need in life is your unfailing love for us in Jesus, plus what you sovereignly decree. We praise, bless, and adore you for the everlasting covenant you established between yourself and your people. The gospel is true. The gospel is good. The gospel is everything. “Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, fill us till we want no more.” So very Amen we pray, in Jesus’ near and satisfying name.
