Leftovers

Published: Oct. 18, 2019, midnight

b'Do you like leftovers? I love them. I would prefer to take leftovers as my lunch over a sandwich any day! When I was growing up, I remember my grandmother would designate one day of the week to have \\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153must-go\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d casserole for supper. That meant that she would take all the leftovers from the week before and make some sort of casserole\\u2014it was always something unique. Ultimately, I\\u2019m thankful for leftovers because it means that my family has more than enough to eat.\\nThe amazing thing about today\\u2019s Scripture passage is that there were leftovers. Jesus was feeding over five thousand people with just five loaves of bread and two fish. There shouldn\\u2019t have been any leftovers at all. In fact, there should have been several thousand people who didn\\u2019t get anything to eat. Instead, there ended up being more food than what Jesus started out with\\u2014that day was overflowing with leftovers.\\nGod can do that in the lives of His people too. He can take a sinner who has lots of bitterness, anger, and unforgiveness and fill them with His overflowing love\\u2014so much so that they have leftover love to give to others. In Christ, we can share His leftover love in any situation, showing the good news of Jesus through our words and actions.\\n\\u2022 Why should we show love to others (1 John 4:19)?\\u2022 Has anyone in your life shown God\\u2019s love to you?\\u2022 How can you show God\\u2019s love to others in your life? \\u2022 If you have questions about God\\u2019s love for you, who is a trusted Christian in your life you can talk with?\\nDear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7 (CSB)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\nLuke 9:10-17'