Good Day To You,

We were in the grocery store today and noticed that quite a few of the Thanksgiving - Christmas speciality food items are out. One of the items was Hot Cocoa bombs. These softball-sized chocolate enhanced spheres are dropped into warm milk, and you have a delicious sweet hot chocolate intoxicating drink. Be it these bombs or a Cinnabon, both have the same result. You have an immediate sugar high and feel like you’re flying, followed in 15 minutes by a major crash, feelings of lethargy, and you are on the edge of going into a coma. 

You are what you eat. Your mood, mind, activity is altered by what you eat. Be it for better or worse. 

“As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take this and eat it, for this is my body.” Matthew 26:26

Here we read Jesus changing the very focal point of Passover meal to himself. He is the unleavened bread, the one without sin, hypocrisy, wickedness, and there is no yeast of the world found in him. He challenges his disciples to eat of him. To take him, the bread of life and purity, and have his nature and life found in their own lives. To relate to him and digest his grace, love and truth into their soul and spirit. 

When you meet up with an old friend you haven’t seen for months or years, you begin to talk and catch up. Something greater is exchanged. You experience the impartation of life and joy into you, and you to them. It’s like in just a few moments, you were never apart. This is relating at a level that Jesus is speaking of, to know him and engage with him by digesting his life into yours. And the more of his sinless life you partake of, the more your ways are changed, as you decrease and he increases. Jesus wants to be found in you. So break bread together and listen and talk together this week because, remember, you are what you eat. 

Q: What food have you enjoyed that left an impression be it good or bad? 

Q: What if you asked often this question: Jesus, where are you at in my life right now,and what are you doing?