Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 26.02.2006
Good food
The Bible's Jesus lives. You can experience how He speaks to you. His words are good food for your spirit. Even one word from Him nourishes your spirit more than praises and honour from people or joy produced by your property or self-confidence given by your wisdom.
Hungry spirit
Our spirits need food as well as our bodies. All people satisfy the hunger of their spirit with some nourishment. What has your spirit eaten? With what has your heart been nourished? Maybe you have been nourished with love, honour and security. Your spirit can also be nourished with hate, shame, sorrow and fear.
Your spirit can eat many kinds of nourishments and from many sources. Practice proves that the spiritual nourishment we have got changes us. Poisonous nourishment makes our spirit sick. Even good nourishment often is insufficient for the well-being of our spirit.
You are what you have eaten. Your pride grew from the glory you received, your greed became inspired by the joy of owning, and your selfishness gained strength from the security produced by your wisdom.
Does your food keep hunger away? After you received praises and honour you will soon feel empty. After you gained joy from your property you will soon be hungry for a new property. After you gained self-confidence and security you will soon feel insecure which makes you hungry again.
Everybody knows how vanishing is human glory, but still they seek it. Everybody knows how temporal is the joy coming from property, but still they take great pains for it. Everybody knows that human wisdom is absolutely insufficient for satisfying our hunger for knowledge, but still they tire themselves to full their minds with it. Why? Because they are hungry and they don't know about better food.
The Bible's Jesus says: "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever. This bread is my flesh, which I give for the life of the world." Joh.6:51
God's faith, hope and love are in Jesus Christ - for the nourishment of your spirit. God's grace is nourishment which makes you humble and grateful removing your pride. God's faith makes you glad without greed and God's fellowship gives you security without selfishness. So nourish your spirit with good food, with Jesus Christ.
You are what you have eaten. Your humbleness grew from the grace you received, your generosity became inspired by the joy of faith, and your obedience to Jesus gained strength from the security produced by the Holy Spirit.
Our spirits need food as well as our bodies. All people satisfy the hunger of their spirit with some nourishment. What has your spirit eaten? With what has your heart been nourished? Maybe you have been nourished with love, honour and security. Your spirit can also be nourished with hate, shame, sorrow and fear.
Your spirit can eat many kinds of nourishments and from many sources. Practice proves that the spiritual nourishment we have got changes us. Poisonous nourishment makes our spirit sick. Even good nourishment often is insufficient for the well-being of our spirit.
You are what you have eaten. Your pride grew from the glory you received, your greed became inspired by the joy of owning, and your selfishness gained strength from the security produced by your wisdom.
Does your food keep hunger away? After you received praises and honour you will soon feel empty. After you gained joy from your property you will soon be hungry for a new property. After you gained self-confidence and security you will soon feel insecure which makes you hungry again.
Everybody knows how vanishing is human glory, but still they seek it. Everybody knows how temporal is the joy coming from property, but still they take great pains for it. Everybody knows that human wisdom is absolutely insufficient for satisfying our hunger for knowledge, but still they tire themselves to full their minds with it. Why? Because they are hungry and they don't know about better food.
The Bible's Jesus says: "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever. This bread is my flesh, which I give for the life of the world." Joh.6:51
God's faith, hope and love are in Jesus Christ - for the nourishment of your spirit. God's grace is nourishment which makes you humble and grateful removing your pride. God's faith makes you glad without greed and God's fellowship gives you security without selfishness. So nourish your spirit with good food, with Jesus Christ.
You are what you have eaten. Your humbleness grew from the grace you received, your generosity became inspired by the joy of faith, and your obedience to Jesus gained strength from the security produced by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus is real food and real drink
Jesus assures us: "My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink." Joh.6:55 So that you could understand that Jesus means His words by His flesh He explains: "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life." Joh.6:63
If someone lives according to His words, His words have become flesh. We could not eat Jesus, if He gave us only words. He lived according to His words. He is the Word of God who became flesh. His words can become deeds also in you, if they are digested for the nourishment of your spirit.
Before you can eat the flesh of Jesus and drink His blood, you must drink the water of God. Jesus invites every person: "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink." Joh.7:37 Those, who believe that God became man in Jesus, have drunk the water of God. Jesus exposes it by saying: "No-one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him." Joh.6:44
The spirit of all people drinks some kind of water. The spirit of every person has received testimonies from the invisible world. Often those quiet testimonies are adopted unnoticed. It is easy to make us drink from the world of spirits, because many of us are not conscious of its existence. God's Spirit testifies of Jesus to you. Thus you are drawn to Him. Drink the water of God and you feel how it revives you that Jesus is the Son of God.
Receiving the testimony of God brings His presence to our spirit, which reveals our evilness to us. Then the blood of Jesus is offered to our spirit for drinking.
You can drink the blood of Jesus by confessing your sins. Say to God in your heart: "I have done evil deeds, because I am evil. Thank you for giving Jesus as the sacrifice that atoned for my sins." When the blood of Jesus purifies your heart, you are allowed to drink the forgiveness of God into your spirit. The Spirit of God assures that now God accepts you to His company for the sake of Jesus. That testimony of the Spirit is milk for your spirit.
Could anything else describe the internalizing of a thing better than drinking and eating? The words of Jesus are food that gives us strength to live according to the will of God, if we digest it. Have you had difficulties in digesting the words of Jesus?
Jesus assures us: "My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink." Joh.6:55 So that you could understand that Jesus means His words by His flesh He explains: "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life." Joh.6:63
If someone lives according to His words, His words have become flesh. We could not eat Jesus, if He gave us only words. He lived according to His words. He is the Word of God who became flesh. His words can become deeds also in you, if they are digested for the nourishment of your spirit.
Before you can eat the flesh of Jesus and drink His blood, you must drink the water of God. Jesus invites every person: "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink." Joh.7:37 Those, who believe that God became man in Jesus, have drunk the water of God. Jesus exposes it by saying: "No-one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him." Joh.6:44
The spirit of all people drinks some kind of water. The spirit of every person has received testimonies from the invisible world. Often those quiet testimonies are adopted unnoticed. It is easy to make us drink from the world of spirits, because many of us are not conscious of its existence. God's Spirit testifies of Jesus to you. Thus you are drawn to Him. Drink the water of God and you feel how it revives you that Jesus is the Son of God.
Receiving the testimony of God brings His presence to our spirit, which reveals our evilness to us. Then the blood of Jesus is offered to our spirit for drinking.
You can drink the blood of Jesus by confessing your sins. Say to God in your heart: "I have done evil deeds, because I am evil. Thank you for giving Jesus as the sacrifice that atoned for my sins." When the blood of Jesus purifies your heart, you are allowed to drink the forgiveness of God into your spirit. The Spirit of God assures that now God accepts you to His company for the sake of Jesus. That testimony of the Spirit is milk for your spirit.
Could anything else describe the internalizing of a thing better than drinking and eating? The words of Jesus are food that gives us strength to live according to the will of God, if we digest it. Have you had difficulties in digesting the words of Jesus?
Do you still eat evil though you drink Jesus?
Many, who confess the Christian faith with their mouth, have a spirit that is not nourished by Jesus. They have drunk the Spirit of God by confessing Jesus as their Redeemer and their Lord, but they have not fully internalized the Gospel of God.
Moving from milk to meat happens to us easily, if only we remain in Jesus. "If anyone obeys His word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in Him. Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did." 1Jo.2:5-6
The words of Jesus are spirit and life. You can respond to the love that God showed to you by obeying the teachings of Jesus. If His words remain in you, also you will remain in Him and He in you.
God's love has not been made complete in you, if you have not responded to His love. He gave Jesus for you. What have you done for the sake of Jesus? God's love calls you to enter into the union with Him.
God proposes to us through His gospel as a man proposes to a woman. If a woman is greatly impressed by it, but she doesn't want a union with the man, she can answer in this way. "I am very grateful to you for your love. It is a stunningly holy thing for me. However I cannot give any response to you, because I am afraid of somehow spoiling your love with my response." Many would like to live in an open union with Jesus. They would like to own Jesus, but they don't want Jesus to own them.
The Bible tells about believers who have given up their faith: "For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith." Hebr.4:2
They didn't combine it with faith means that they didn't digest it. They vomit the words of Jesus out from their heart with many sour explanations, with which they expose that they cannot digest Him. These digesting difficulties are caused by their disobedience to the gospel of God.
They hardened their hearts to the words of Jesus, because God's grace was not sufficient for them. If they had fully internalized the gospel, they would internalize also the teachings of Jesus. If their spirits lived on the milk of the gospel, they could also eat the flesh of the teachings of Jesus. Their problem comes from their old habit of still nourishing their spirit with human glory, rejoicing in perishable things and putting their trust in human wisdom.
If your spirit is nourished at the same time both with the drink of God and with the food of your sinful nature, you live in a conflict with yourself and your spirit feels faint. Your heart cannot endlessly endure this. How long are you able to continue in your faith in Jesus only on the drink of God?
Many believers languish spiritually. Therefore their new born spirit has no strength to resist the power of the sinful nature. If only they consented to eat Jesus, they would quickly get strength to crucify their sinful nature with its passions and desires.
Many, who confess the Christian faith with their mouth, have a spirit that is not nourished by Jesus. They have drunk the Spirit of God by confessing Jesus as their Redeemer and their Lord, but they have not fully internalized the Gospel of God.
Moving from milk to meat happens to us easily, if only we remain in Jesus. "If anyone obeys His word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in Him. Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did." 1Jo.2:5-6
The words of Jesus are spirit and life. You can respond to the love that God showed to you by obeying the teachings of Jesus. If His words remain in you, also you will remain in Him and He in you.
God's love has not been made complete in you, if you have not responded to His love. He gave Jesus for you. What have you done for the sake of Jesus? God's love calls you to enter into the union with Him.
God proposes to us through His gospel as a man proposes to a woman. If a woman is greatly impressed by it, but she doesn't want a union with the man, she can answer in this way. "I am very grateful to you for your love. It is a stunningly holy thing for me. However I cannot give any response to you, because I am afraid of somehow spoiling your love with my response." Many would like to live in an open union with Jesus. They would like to own Jesus, but they don't want Jesus to own them.
The Bible tells about believers who have given up their faith: "For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith." Hebr.4:2
They didn't combine it with faith means that they didn't digest it. They vomit the words of Jesus out from their heart with many sour explanations, with which they expose that they cannot digest Him. These digesting difficulties are caused by their disobedience to the gospel of God.
They hardened their hearts to the words of Jesus, because God's grace was not sufficient for them. If they had fully internalized the gospel, they would internalize also the teachings of Jesus. If their spirits lived on the milk of the gospel, they could also eat the flesh of the teachings of Jesus. Their problem comes from their old habit of still nourishing their spirit with human glory, rejoicing in perishable things and putting their trust in human wisdom.
If your spirit is nourished at the same time both with the drink of God and with the food of your sinful nature, you live in a conflict with yourself and your spirit feels faint. Your heart cannot endlessly endure this. How long are you able to continue in your faith in Jesus only on the drink of God?
Many believers languish spiritually. Therefore their new born spirit has no strength to resist the power of the sinful nature. If only they consented to eat Jesus, they would quickly get strength to crucify their sinful nature with its passions and desires.
Are you ashamed of drinking and eating Jesus?
"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes." Ro.1:16
If the gospel of God was something that man made up, nobody would be ashamed of it. God offers His strength to us in a way that people consider shameful. Just this shame makes believers slow to hear the words of Jesus. What points of the gospel do they consider shameful?
They consider it a foolishness that God would have become man in Jesus. Does this shame prevent you from drinking the water of God? Why would I be afraid of laughter of people when the mouth of my spirit drinks the Spirit of God and says: Jesus is my Lord and God?
They think that it is shameful that the Son of God and the Messiah would die in a very shameful way and would suffer their punishment. They think that everyone must himself suffer the judgment of his evil deeds. Does this shame prevent you from drinking the blood of Jesus? Why would I be afraid of disapproval of people when the mouth of my spirit confesses my sins to Jesus?
People consider the resurrection of the dead foolishness. Does this shame prevent you from eating the flesh of the Son of God? Why would I be afraid of laughter of people when I make decisions which are based on the resurrection and in that way I follow Jesus?
Jesus died for you so that you need not die. This death is the wages of sin, in which God expresses His wrath against our evilness. Because Jesus was raised from the dead, you can be sure that your sins will be forgiven. It is milk for your spirit when you experience this.
Just when you rejoiced that you need not die, you get to hear that you died together with Jesus. By His death Jesus put our sinful nature to death and by His resurrection He made us new. Because Jesus was raised up from the dead, you can be sure that also you will be raised up. It is flesh for your spirit when you experience this.
When Jesus is speaking about eating His flesh, He speaks about hearing of His words. We can read His words in the Bible, but here He doesn't mean those words. He speaks about the words which He speaks personally directly to us. "Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God." Mt.4:4 The words that come to us from the mouth of Jesus are the flesh that He gives us.
When Jesus speaks about this manna of the New Covenant, He tells us that it means His actions after His resurrection. "Does this offend you? What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life..." Joh.6:61-63
Even one word from Jesus causes miracles in us. In the Revelation Jesus knocks on the heart doors of the believers of Laodicea. This knocking means rebuking, but who considers it love and opens for Him? "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me." Re.3:20 Nobody can live the life of a true Christian without eating with Jesus.
"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes." Ro.1:16
If the gospel of God was something that man made up, nobody would be ashamed of it. God offers His strength to us in a way that people consider shameful. Just this shame makes believers slow to hear the words of Jesus. What points of the gospel do they consider shameful?
They consider it a foolishness that God would have become man in Jesus. Does this shame prevent you from drinking the water of God? Why would I be afraid of laughter of people when the mouth of my spirit drinks the Spirit of God and says: Jesus is my Lord and God?
They think that it is shameful that the Son of God and the Messiah would die in a very shameful way and would suffer their punishment. They think that everyone must himself suffer the judgment of his evil deeds. Does this shame prevent you from drinking the blood of Jesus? Why would I be afraid of disapproval of people when the mouth of my spirit confesses my sins to Jesus?
People consider the resurrection of the dead foolishness. Does this shame prevent you from eating the flesh of the Son of God? Why would I be afraid of laughter of people when I make decisions which are based on the resurrection and in that way I follow Jesus?
Jesus died for you so that you need not die. This death is the wages of sin, in which God expresses His wrath against our evilness. Because Jesus was raised from the dead, you can be sure that your sins will be forgiven. It is milk for your spirit when you experience this.
Just when you rejoiced that you need not die, you get to hear that you died together with Jesus. By His death Jesus put our sinful nature to death and by His resurrection He made us new. Because Jesus was raised up from the dead, you can be sure that also you will be raised up. It is flesh for your spirit when you experience this.
When Jesus is speaking about eating His flesh, He speaks about hearing of His words. We can read His words in the Bible, but here He doesn't mean those words. He speaks about the words which He speaks personally directly to us. "Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God." Mt.4:4 The words that come to us from the mouth of Jesus are the flesh that He gives us.
When Jesus speaks about this manna of the New Covenant, He tells us that it means His actions after His resurrection. "Does this offend you? What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life..." Joh.6:61-63
Even one word from Jesus causes miracles in us. In the Revelation Jesus knocks on the heart doors of the believers of Laodicea. This knocking means rebuking, but who considers it love and opens for Him? "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me." Re.3:20 Nobody can live the life of a true Christian without eating with Jesus.
Who ate Jesus got His shape
Those who eat Jesus shall be changed into His likeness as a man. You can recognize the character of Jesus in the Bible and try to be like Him, but nobody can be like Him by one's own strength. If you seek words from His mouth, you will get greetings from heaven. When you digest the words, you will experience their changing power.
Do not be satisfied only with the words of Jesus readable in the Bible, but seek Him to hear words from His mouth. Also the Bible urges us to do so: "Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." Heb.4:16
Jesus is our high priest, who has reception at all hours. His ear is not deaf and He is not weak to help. Although He was weak when He was on the cross, now He is powerful, because He sits on the throne of God.
Many believers have attitudes, which prevent them from seeing this possibility to turn directly to Jesus. These attitudes they have got from their Christian church, where the Bible and the Church are worshipped as idols. Worshipping a letter of the Bible is a veil that covers their hearts preventing them from seeing the glory of Jesus. Their pastor has put his own authority as a veil on their hearts so that they cannot experience the reviving power of the Holy Spirit.
"But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." 2Co.3:16-18
So do not allow anything come between Jesus and you. Every day His glory can nourish you, wherever you are. Your spirit can always be in contact with God and be satisfied with His goodness.
Those who eat Jesus shall be changed into His likeness as a man. You can recognize the character of Jesus in the Bible and try to be like Him, but nobody can be like Him by one's own strength. If you seek words from His mouth, you will get greetings from heaven. When you digest the words, you will experience their changing power.
Do not be satisfied only with the words of Jesus readable in the Bible, but seek Him to hear words from His mouth. Also the Bible urges us to do so: "Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." Heb.4:16
Jesus is our high priest, who has reception at all hours. His ear is not deaf and He is not weak to help. Although He was weak when He was on the cross, now He is powerful, because He sits on the throne of God.
Many believers have attitudes, which prevent them from seeing this possibility to turn directly to Jesus. These attitudes they have got from their Christian church, where the Bible and the Church are worshipped as idols. Worshipping a letter of the Bible is a veil that covers their hearts preventing them from seeing the glory of Jesus. Their pastor has put his own authority as a veil on their hearts so that they cannot experience the reviving power of the Holy Spirit.
"But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." 2Co.3:16-18
So do not allow anything come between Jesus and you. Every day His glory can nourish you, wherever you are. Your spirit can always be in contact with God and be satisfied with His goodness.
The Bible version used in references is NIV