Have you ever heard this old saying?
“You are what you eat!”
In some ways it’s true!
I was reading a Jewish writer earlier this morning and he presented to my mind this Biblical thought: “The Priests of ancient Israel ate of the holy sacrifices presented at the brazen altar of the Tabernacle!”
Wow, they did!
Talk about eating holy, healthy food!
And those priests were, in God’s Eyes (if they were otherwise obedient) “Holy unto the Lord.” (2 Chronicles 35:3)
Old Testament practice now yields to New Testament principle …
Yes … as Christians today (alive after Jesus’ Death, Buril and Resurrection) we too are called “priests!” Precisely, 1 Peter 2:5 tells us. “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”
So I am wondering, “What do we eat?” Sacrifices as well, like those Old Testament Servants of the Lord?
The answer should be …
We eat the Supreme Sacrifice!
Jesus Christ our dear Saviour … He is our meat, our food!
Read this Verse: “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” John 6:51, Jesus speaking of Himself!
Then just two Verses later … “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.”
Wow!
How then do I so partake of the Lord?
By knowing Him personally, by trusting Him as my Saviour! Then by studying and following His Life, obeying His Commands!
By ingesting His Word, every day that I live.
“O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.” Psalm 34:8
And on that regular spiritual diet … I too will soon become more like what I eat! More like Jesus! Yes, me an old sinner saved by Grace … “conformed to the image of God’s Son!” (Romans 8:29)
One man also quipped, “You do what you eat!” Meaning that we derive our strength from our food, our diet!
In that light, Elijah in 1 Kings 19:18 … “And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.”
Again, as we meditate and personalize the Lord Jesus … the stronger we become for His Glory Paul agrees … “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Wow!
I close with a prayer … “O Lord, with these thoughts in mind, make us hungry!”
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
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