Isaiah 25 : 6-10
Matthew 15 : 29-37
I have heard quite a bit about fine dining although I have not been to one nor do I intend to.
It seems like it is always in a top-class restaurant, and each diner will be served by a waiter, and the food is, needless to say, very good. And so is the price.
Yet when we hear of such things in a world that is experiencing hunger and famine, we wonder what sense does it all make. In fact it sounds like a mockery.
For the people hearing the prophet Isaiah taking about God preparing a fine banquet and rejoicing, it didn't make much sense to them because they were in the midst of the threat of annihilation by a powerful enemy and there was also an internal power struggle to bear with.
In fact one might even get angry with God about the hunger and famine and the political turmoil and the wars and violence that is happening all around.
Just like the story of the young man who was angry with God over the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
Then he had a dream in which God told him this : I have great things in store for the poor and hungry.
The young man asked angrily : Like what!?! God answered : I am sending you
Well, like is often said : If we are not part of the solution, then we are part of the problem.
I guess the problem is realising that we are called be the solution.
Just as in the gospel, the solution was in the hands of the disciples, the solution to life's problems also lies in our hands.
But we have to ask God to help us realise it.