Right Relatedness Matt Chandler
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
IN 1945, AS WORLD WAR II WAS COMING TO AN END, ALLIED troops liberated the concentration camp at Bergen- Belsen. What they found shocked them— skeletal figures, hollow eyes, children too weak to cry. Many of the newly freed prisoners died not from German bullets but from starvation even after
rescue. Their bodies, long denied nutrition, could not handle too much too quickly. They had been starving so long that even food had to be reintroduced slowly, carefully. And yet, the most haunting detail wasn’ t just physical. As one British chaplain recorded, many of those survivors wept when they saw bread— not because it was bread, but because they remembered what it felt like to hope. This is a good picture of what Jesus is laying before
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