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Cedarville Magazine
Our extended family was home for the
weekend, and we ate out together before
our children and grandchildren went their
separate ways. Food poisoning comes on
rather quickly and emphatically, and let me
tell you, it was not a pretty picture.
Seven out of 10 family members were
affected. Sharing as a family is a gift from
God, but this ... this was not what I’d call
family fun!
About seven hours later the vomiting
and “other symptoms” began to abate, but
during the hours that transpired, food had
lost its appeal, and even the thought of it
made me feel queasy for days to come.
One visit to a restaurant that
unintentionally serves tainted food can
definitely affect your body and its desires!
Hunger and thirst eventually returned.
They came slowly, but they did come back.
It began around 5 p.m. the day after Easter.
Satisfied by His Sacrifice
Hunger and thirst are normal, natural
components of healthy lives, but for what
are we truly hungry and thirsty? And how
do we satisfy our cravings?
Isaiah 55:1–2 says, “Come, everyone
who thirsts, come to the waters; and he
who has no money, come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk without money
and without price. Why do you spend your
money for that which is not bread, and your
labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen
diligently to me, and eat what is good, and
delight yourselves in rich food.”
These delicious verses exist in
the context of the One introduced in
Isaiah 52.This sin-bearing, suffering Servant
was “wounded for our transgressions” and
“crushed for our iniquities” (Isa. 53:5).
Jesus willingly took upon Himself the
unthinkable consequences of the sin of
all peoples for all time. God, the Father,
laid on Him the iniquity of us all (vs. 6).
“He was oppressed, and He was afflicted,
yet He opened not His mouth; like a lamb
that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep
that before its shearers is silent, so He
opened not His mouth” (vs. 7). Innocent
and without resistance, the Servant set the
table for a feast to be enjoyed by all who
would come.
I S A I A H 5 5 : 2
eat
and
by Robert Rohm ’68
“
W
hy do you spend your
money for that which is not
bread, and your labor for that
which does not satisfy?”
