“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light…”
{Matthew 11:28-30 KJV}
Shalom everyone…
This is a story about a woman who owns a restaurant and a preacher who would visit her every Sunday afternoon in between Church services for some good o’le Cajun cooking…
I guess I should start with a little history lesson on how these two met…
Early in both of their lives they knew what they wanted to do in order to provide for their families and themselves…
The woman wanted to own a family run restaurant working right a long side of her family and friends serving good o’le home–cooked Cajun food to the Community that she had lived in all her life. While growing up she paid very close attention to her momma, grandma, and aunts who held all the secret family recipes in their minds. Seeing how enthusiastic she was about the family cooking they started teaching her to cook when she was very young—not knowing that one day she would become very well known for being an awesome cook and a very successful restaurant owner…
The preacher came from a very humble and ~GOD~ fearing Patriotic–American–Christian family that Loved The Lord. Everyone that knew his family was well aware of their Love for The Lord because every time the Church doors were open, there they’ed be, worshipping Their Lord…
His family was also known for helping others in need—not expecting to prosper or to gain favor with anyone, but only to serve as the hands and feet of Their Lord and Savior ~JESUS~ Christ of Nazareth…
By now everyone should have figured out that these two people didn’t grow up in the same community or even in the same Cultural settings. But that doesn’t matter, because we are All made in the image of ~GOD~
These two met one very rainy day at her restaurant when he just happened to stop in for lunch. You see, before this day he had never even had Cajun food and didn’t know that he was about to start a weekend tradition as well as a lifelong friendship…
On this day he had been attending a ministry class in preparation to be ordained into the ministry. This was not anything out of the ordinary since he had been doing this for the past couple of years. These classes were being held in a big city approximately an hour and a half away from the small town that he lived in and since they did not offer the classes anywhere closer to home he had to attend them there…
What was out of the ordinary is that on that day he found himself in a Cajun restaurant eating Cajun food. This was definitely a first. Everyday prior to that day he would usually go to a local park and eat the homemade lunch that he had packed for himself before leaving home that morning. But, on this one day it was pouring down rain and if that wasn’t bad enough there was a lot of construction and confusion on those big city streets that some how detoured him to this Cajun restaurant where he was eating what would become his favorite food—being cooked and served by someone that would become a very dear friend…
After that unexpected encounter the two struck up a friendship and he struck up an Appetite for Cajun food. No one but ~GOD~ actually knows how many times a week he ate there while he was finishing his ministry training, but, it was a lot!!!
When he finished his training he was ordained as a Christian Minister and was accepted as the Preacher for a small Church approximately two hours from the Cajun restaurant. His friend and owner of the restaurant gave him a graduation dinner that was fit for a king. While reminiscing and saying their good–byes he promised her that he would be at the restaurant every Sunday afternoon ready to eat his favorite food cooked and served by his very dear friend. She politely agreed with him but had very little hope of ever seeing him again since he would obviously be too busy with his congregation to make the long trip every week…
The next day the woman opened up her restaurant for business just like she had been doing for the last few years and moved on with her life. Occasionally she would have a passing memory of the preacher and wondered what he was doing at that moment only to be reminded that he was now gone and she would probably never see her dear friend again…
Then came Sunday afternoon. To her surprise in walked the preacher ready to eat his favorite food cooked and served by his dear friend. He exclaimed, “are you ready for me—I told you I would be here—don’t keep me waiting…”
As she very quickly set a table for him and started preparing his food she shouted from the kitchen how happy and surprised she was to see him again and so soon. He said, “why are you so surprised that I have done what I told you I would do. Have I ever lied to you???” She said, “No”. He then said, “just as I have came here today as promised I will be here next Sunday afternoon and every Sunday afternoon Lord Willing until He calls me Home”:
“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come!!!”
{Matthew 24:42 KJV}
Through out the years their lives changed. Her restaurant grew to be very famous and successful along with her personal life as she married a good man and had several kids and grandkids that all helped her with the family restaurant. The preacher himself married a good woman that The Lord had provided for him and they were fruitful and multiplied abundantly so much so that they had to build a new and bigger Church to accommodate their family and the growing Congregation…
Despite all the changes in their lives they continued their friendship and their Sunday afternoon meals at the Cajun restaurant. The only thing that had changed with this tradition is how many people were now involved in this culinary gathering and friendship. Some times there would be so many people from both families that there was hardly any room for the regular customers…
No matter how many times the preacher had said it in the past he would always open the door to the restaurant and exclaim, “are you ready for me—I told you I would be here—don’t keep me waiting…” and without delay, no matter how busy the restaurant was, him and his guests were served up his favorite food cooked by his very dear friend:
“Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods…”
{Matthew 24:44-47 KJV}
Some of you might have already figured out that this is a fictional story. It’s written to illustrate the relationship that we should have with our Lord and Savior ~JESUS~ Christ of Nazareth…
He never lies so believe everything that He has said and look forward to everything that He said He would do because it surely will come to be:
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away…”
{Matthew 24:35 KJV}
No matter how busy we are, when He comes knocking on the door to Sup with us—we should Always put everything and everyone aside and Sup with Him:
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne…”
{Revelation 3:20-21 KJV}
🎧 I Just Came To Talk With You Lord
Maranatha!!!
📻 KJAB
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