The first thing that God pointed out to Adam in the Garden was the menu: all the trees He had created to make food for the man. From the beginning, even in a perfect world, God wanted Adam to think of his relationship to God in terms of food and hunger and satisfaction. When Adam disobeyed and rebelled against God it was eating the wrong food at the wrong time.
Later in the wilderness, Israel wrestled with God, again often with food: complaining about water, manna, and quail. When Jesus came, He fed the five thousand and the four thousand, and He said that He came down from Heaven as the true manna, the bread of life, that whoever ate and drank of Him would live forever. And He gave us the Lord’s Supper so that we might eat and drink and fellowship with Him until the end of the world.
God has always presented Himself to us as our food. There is something about hunger that is meant to constantly teach us about our need for God. This is why fasting and feasting have always been integral parts of walking with God. You naturally think about food and drink multiple times a day. You tend to measure your days by meal times.
All of this is meant to teach us that we need God like that. Just as you feel the physical hunger for physical food, you are to understand that you need God’s presence in your life constantly. How can you fight sin and glorify God continually? By communing with God constantly. Throughout your day, pray things like: “Lord, since you are with me, help me honor you now and always. Lord, grant me the grace to remain in Your presence and help me bring glory to your name in this task. Lord, please be with me now so that all that I do may be an expression of love for You.”
God invites you to think of Him as your food. And therefore, as you think about food, think about God. Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. So come and welcome to Jesus Christ.
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