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The Bible constantly urges us to seek God and His Son Jesus Christ. But where should we look and where will we find God? Job found Him in the whirlwind but Elijah also found Him in the still small voice. God it appears to me at any rate will not restrict Himself in how and where He can be found for He ought to be able to be found anywhere we look. In my simple understanding a God who cannot be found in the mundane drudgery of the routines of everyday life is no better than the gods of the heathen, distant and no longer relevant to the world we live in.

And this leads me naturally to shopping! I have this thing about shopping, basically an intense dislike of it. Each week you will see me in the local supermarket pushing the trolley around like a zombie whilst my wife scurries around looking for the bargains. There are no  traffic rules, it is basically a free for all and as the store is always busy it becomes a nightmare negotiating my way around the aisles. You can usually find me and my trolley parked alongside the exotic food section in the hope people like me will not even know what asafetida, fenugreek and lychees are, let alone what to do with them in the kitchen!

So it was in this context I put a challenge once to God to see if I could find Him in the local supermarket for if I could find Him there then indeed He could be found anywhere. I wasn’t however expecting His quick response for the next time I was in the supermarket the answer came to me so clearly! There I was standing in front of rows of wine with the bakery in the background and the fresh aroma of baked bread wafting down the aisle and the revelation suddenly came to me. God is in the bread and the wine!

For us today meat and vegetables, pasta and rice form our diet but for the people in Jesus day the staple diet would have been bread and cheap wine because the water was undrinkable.  Just as Christ is as much the meat and drink of our modern day lives today as He was then. We simply cannot survive from day to day without Him and His strength. From that point on the breaking of bread and pouring out of the wine in the Eucharist took on a new meaning for me.

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