Remember, Listen, and Eat (1 Corinthians 10:1-22)

“How are we supposed to be able to help those who are without joy and courage, if we ourselves are not borne by courage and joy? What is meant here is not something made or forced, but something given and free. With God there is joy, and from him it comes down and seizes spirit, soul, and body. And where this joy has seized a person, it reaches out around itself, it pulls others along, it bursts through closed doors. There is a kind of joy that knows nothing at all of the pain, distress, and anxiety of the heart. But it cannot last; it can only numb for a time. The joy of God has gone through the poverty of the manger and the distress of the cross; therefore it is invincible and irrefutable.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger, December 28 Remember, Listen, and Eat (1 Corinthians 10:1-22) Rev. Bradley Barnes 1 Corinthians 10:1-22