Taste and See

From a poem in Victor Buono’s book It could be Verse, You are what you eat said one wise man. If that is true then I am a garbage can. Basically he was saying you are what you put in your body. This is not only true physically, but spiritually. Proverbs 15:14 A wise person is hungry for knowledge, while the fool feeds on trash. From Luke 6- So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. Jesus wants us to consume him and his word. He wants us to be nourished by him, to be filled with him. Our spiritual health comes from his wholesomeness, his pureness. Our eternal life comes from Christ’s mercy given on a cross. 1 Peter 2:3 as newborn babes desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious." Or as the Psalmist put it…Psalm 34:8 Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him! We are in that time of communion. A time of rememberance.