The last supper club

A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Swarzy Shire

Good Morning. Last month, I started The Last Supper Club - a supper club inspired by my love for Jesus and His love for sharing meals with his friends. A couple of weeks ago, I served up a big roast dinner: honey-glazed lamb, butter & rosemary veg, and roast potatoes carved into little wells ready for gravy to be poured in, spill over, and drench everything on the plate - the only way to do it!

That evening, we read John chapter 4, where Jesus meets a woman at the well. Unlike most people who came to draw water either early morning or late at night to escape the heat of the sun, this woman came at midday to escape the heat of people - her shame burning hotter than the sun itself. Yet Jesus, God in the flesh, was already there, waiting for her. He offered her living water, saying, “Whoever drinks of the water I give will never thirst again.”

After tasting this living water, I loved that she ran back to the same people she was avoiding, to tell them, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did!” And by the end of the chapter, many believe - first because of her words, then because they meet Jesus for themselves.

There’s something about truly tasting and seeing the goodness of Jesus - like a good roast dinner overflowing with gravy - that makes it impossible to stay quiet about His love! I pray that His goodness towards us would spill out of our lives as we share with others what we’ve tasted and seen of His grace. May many come to believe for themselves that He is indeed the Saviour of the world. Amen.