ENEMIES AT THE TABLE-PSALM 23:5
In college, I was part of an organization called Young Life. Our freshman year was dedicated to training and then we went to serve on local high school campuses thereafter. As part of our training, our area director would meet with us every week and lead us through discipleship process. After one evening, he mentioned, informally, hey, why don't you guys come over to our house for dinner next week? Here's the thing: I didn't have a planner in college. I couldn't have told you when most of my tests were coming or even generally, my schedule most of the time, BUT if you invited me over for dinner, you better believe I was going to be there! So he did invite us over for dinner. My roommate and I pulled up to the house and we were the only car there. My initial thought was, "More for me. Thank you very much for forgetting about this glorious invitation." We went up and knocked on the door. When our area director opened up the door from the initial look you could tell he was not expecting us. We reminded him of the invitation and he said, "Oh yeah. Let me go remind my wife." Which was code for I need to tell my wife you're here. There was an exchange that happens between husband and wife where, in one look, it's the I'm sorry...please forgive me....I'm in the doghouse look and do we have enough food for these ravenous freshman guys? Most normal people at that point would say, "You know what? You weren't expecting us. Let's reschedule for next week." You know this by now....I am not most normal people!!! We awkwardly, gingerly walked in their house where she exclaimed, "I'm sure we have enough food to go around!" They pulled us up a seat at their dinner table. We ate dinner. The food started to dwindle and it was clear they didn't have enough food to go around. But that didn't matter to us, because we were going to get ours! The whole time we were eating I'm looking around the table going, "We are not suppose to be here! They did not expect us to come!" It was a little bit awkward. Most normal people would have said I'm out. But we bore it and we made it through the dinner...
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