The Bullet of New Life in Christ: Learn How to Eat – Digestion is Automatic
One of the necessities of our physical existence is eating. A person who does not eat will die … it may take some time but it is inevitable. Eating is essential for energy, joy and health! How wonderful that one of the things it pleased the Creator to do was to make eating pleasurable. Think of some of the great meals you have enjoyed and thank Him for that gift. Physical eating also provides us with new and deeper insights into the process necessary to properly nourish our spirits. The Creator made us with spiritual appetites as well as physical ones. It is His good pleasure that both are responded to and properly satisfied! “We are to desire the pure spiritual milk of God’s Word that we may grow …” (I Peter 2:2). “Take and eat, this is My Body (Mt. 26:26; Jn. 6:53), “… the right to eat from the tree of life …” (Rev. 2:7).
Who else but our Lord prepares our spiritual meals as well as plans our menus! Think of Israel in the wilderness and Jehovah choosing quail and manna to feed them. He also showed them how hitting “certain rocks” would give water to quench their thirst. For us to worry about where or what to eat spiritually is ridiculous. Trust Him to feed you on time, with a meal that is always enough (sometimes basic and sometimes gourmet). All we need to do is eat and then move on in “that” energy. Our part is to catch the quail, pick-up the manna and hit the rock. That sounds a little like “ask, seek and knock” doesn’t it? (Mt. 7:7-8). The Lord always does His part to provide the resource, but it’s ours to assimilate! As food is the power miracle that renews our body, so truth is the power miracle that renews our hearts!
Quit chasing and worrying about what verses to study, what books to read, what speakers to hear, what courses to take, what TV program to watch, what CD to buy, what events to attend! There are thousands of “truth menus” served daily by the Creator to millions of His people. You can’t eat all that’s being served nor do you need to! A little each day, so long as He is “the Chef,” is enough to sustain you to do His will. He will “put” you where you need to be. He will “put” before you what you need to eat! He has prepared and will always prepare your next spiritual meal. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Sometimes fresh, sometimes leftovers! All we have to do is to EAT DAILY from His world wide table of nourishment. There is always enough whether we think so or not! Some days might provide 2,500 truth calories, other days only 1,000. We should just eat what’s there without complaint or worry. This enables us to live satisfied and relaxed … not stuffed but not starving! We know the Savior will distribute His Truth throughout our “spiritual digestive system” according to His design and purpose. Obedience to His processes will work His purposeswhether we understand it or not!
Whatever “the food of experience brings to us in irrelevant. It can be better or worse, good or bad, delicious or so-so! As long as we eat it, the Lord will convert it into spiritual energy. Our job is to choose the best responses possible to our options for a “diet of Jesus reality.” The better we eat … both physically and spiritually … the better we live!
“… ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God.'" The LORD God speaking to Israel, Exodus 16:12
“You are free to eat of any tree of the Garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” Genesis 2:16-17
“Whatever you eat … do it all to the glory of God.” I Corinthians 10:31
“The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the Lord will praise Him … all the rich of the earth will feast and worship …” Psalm 22:26, 29
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