Do you think about the food you eat??

When you go to eat something do you think about where it came from?? Do you read labels? Do you care? A comparison between the natural and spiritual relationship between the bread taken for communion as commanded in 1 Cor 11 & Luke 22 was brought to our attention so I wanted to share My paraphrase with you and add the larger context.


Yashaya used the everyday routine of eating to communicate profound spiritual truth.

1. Just as food is useless unless it is eaten, so does spiritual truth do no good unless it is internalized. Merely knowing truth without acting on it both profits nothing. Heb 4:2 and you can no longer remain neutral Luke 11:23 In fact your knowledge results in a more severe judgement. Lk 12:47-48, Heb 10:29
2. Eating is prompted by hunger; those who are full are not interested in food. In the same way sinners who are satiated with their sin have no hunger for spiritual things. Lk 5:31-32, 6:21 When the voice of the most High Speaks into their darkness and they begin to see that they are lost without Him. Seeing their condition creates a hunger for forgiveness, deliverance, peace, love, hope, and joy drives them to truth.
3. The food you consume becomes a part of you through the natural process of digestion. So it is with spiritual things. It is only through Faith that people become one with Christ. 1Cor6:17,2Cor 4:10,Gal 2:20, Eph 3:17
4. Eating involves trust. No one knowingly eats tainted or spoiled food. The very act of eating implies Faith that the food is edible. (Do you know if your food has been tainted??) Thus the metaphor of communion implies belief in Christ.
5. Eating is very personal. No one can eat for another. Just the same your salvation is your responsibility. 

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 Every tub must sit on its own bottom.

Philippians 2:12“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”

"Eve was tempted in the garden with an apple. Through her perception and pride she fell into sin and was cast from the garden. Eve perceived that the fruit was “good for food,” “pleasing to the eye,” and “desirable for gaining wisdom” (Genesis 3:6). She coveted the fruit in three ways. First, it was appealing to her appetite. This John refers to as the “lust of the flesh,” the desire for that which satisfies any of the physical needs. The fruit was also pleasing or delightful to the eye, that which we see and desire to own or possess. Here is the “lust of the eyes” John refers to. Finally, Eve somehow perceived that the fruit would make her wise, giving her a wisdom beyond her own. Part of Satan’s lie was that eating the fruit would make her “like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5)." (https://www.gotquestions.org/pride-of-life.html)



So next time you wander into your kitchen and begin to look for something to eat, or when at the store or drive through, ask yourself as I partake of this food is it because I need fuel for my body to run and so am making the most positive choice for my life??? Or am I using an seemingly innocent activity without considering the larger connotations??