Thursday, August 25, 2011

Consumed

When people began to question Jesus’ strange words about eating his flesh and drinking his blood he explains his words. “It is the Spirit who gives life: the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you who do not believe” (John 6:63-64).

In other words, we get our life from being engulfed in Jesus’ teaching, by being consumed by God’s Spirit. Consuming Jesus means all our choices are based on the Truth. Paul puts it this way, “I was crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. (Galatians 2:20).

We consume Truth and are consumed by the Truth.