²¹ For at the meal, each one eats his own supper.^[a] So one person is hungry while another gets drunk! (1 Corinthians 11:21 CSB)

There is something I love about the more obscure passages of the bible. I think it is the mining for meaning both during the time period when they were written and how they apply today.

Today’s scripture is around observance of the Lord’s supper. How different people come to it and how they leave, but I think there is a broader meaning here as well. It addresses how we approach one another, both those with little and those with much. Additionally, how we approach our lives whether we have little or we have much.

If we were to share everything and not succumb to our own gluttony or materialism the world would be better off. However, this is not how a fallen world works. And too often when others strive for balance people begin fighting over wanting more. There seems to never be enough to go around. Thus, we have rich and poor, have’s and have not’s, and sadly, this is how society has operated since the dawn of man.

So what is the cure? Well, really only Christ is the cure, and in many ways only on the other side in heaven. But we can strive for better while we are here.