"The fellowship of believers is our inheritance on this Earth."

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“Eating alone is not fun.”

 

If I didn't know better, I would gladly be a “Universalist” where salvation and reconciliation with God eventually is for all without exception.

 

Working in Washington DC I used to participate in banquets and reception in Embassies with Ambassadors, with Heads of State in very fancy restaurants, in the private Mansions of the rich and famous, and with the most powerful men of the World at that time.

 

My Ruthie was a little timid and did not particularly enjoy these meetings but always asked me “What did you eat?” It was uncomfortable for me to describe the food knowing that Ruthie would have enjoyed eating them too. I would always end my report on food to Ruthie saying “I had some extra food in your name.” And her classical response was “Thanks a lot.”

 

It was a great joy for me to persuade Ruthie to go to some of these banquets and to enjoy her company and visit with her as my friend. As Ruthie used to say “That was Scrumptious.” In a nutshell, “I love to share but I hated to eat alone.”

 

All this is to say that the same is true with Jesus who is the bread of heaven from God.

I am not happy unless I am sharing what I have found through revelation in the Holy of Holies. Like in cooking, I do not try to find out what others like and then cook something that I do not know how to cook like Lasagna or meatloaf.

I cook what I know how to cook and that I like myself such as Lomo saltado or Ceviche, or Tigers milk and other Peruvian delicious foods. Why should I cook and serve something that I don’t like?

 

The same is true with “My Food for thought articles.” I do not write anything that I have not found delightful myself. I think I am a homemade “comfort food cook writer.”

 

Yesterday my son Osman, who lives a few blocks from where I live, invited me to eat steaks for Labor Day. I enjoyed thoroughly visiting with them and eating his thick and juicy steaks. We only meet like this three times a year because Osman works hard as one of the night shift managers of his large company and the rest of his family are involved in many extracurricular activities that make it impossible for them to find time for anything else.

 

After almost four hours I came back very relaxed with my doggy bag in hand. My grandson Gerry drove me back. It is very good to share a meal and break bread with people that you love.

 

Today I woke up at 3:00 AM to study the Word about the Lord's Supper. As I was reading Facebook it reminded me of a  sermon that I wrote a long time ago. 

As I read that old sermon it became a blessing to know that it was an anointed sermon and still fresh and good ready to “reheat” and eat.

 

Some might say, “You are getting used to your own junk food.”

To that I will say, “ If junk food tastes like this and makes you as strong as I am in the Lord, blessed be because I have never been as weak as I am in the flesh, but by the same token, I have never been as strong and healthy spiritually.”

I wish everyone would be where I am except for my health issues.

 

Besides, if you do not like your own sermons, don’t expect others to like them.

 

The end of my discourse is this: “I wish salvation was universal regardless of men’s behavior, but it is not so. Jesus said, “Drink from it all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for MANY for the forgiveness of sins.”

The blood of Jesus was poured out for MANY, not for all. The Atonement is limited to some. It is not for all. There is a heaven and there is a hell. Some will go to heaven and others to hell.

 

I know the beauties of Heaven and the great banquet of the Lamb of God.

I refuse to sit at that banquet table alone. I am trying to take as many as I can with me so we might greatly rejoice together in that banquet. At the end of my banquet table I want to sit with those with whom I bonded with Jesus when on earth and remember our times in this world that will make heaven twice sweeter.

 

Learn to walk in the agreement of prayer today so that when you get to heaven you will not be shocked.

 

This was a waiter of Jesus on duty, comforting you with the same comfort that I have been comforted.

 

Gerry Gutierrez.

 

PS. I am begging prayers for my friends, the Meyers. Serious health matters please.