Food to You is What You Enjoy

Food to You is What You Enjoy

Not What You Know

I have no doubt that food is from God, and is heavenly provision, and that which keeps you in touch with heaven. But it is what you feed upon that nourishes you, and not what you have in the cupboard! In one word, it is CHRIST, and not merely truth about Him.

“Meditate on these things” is just bidding us to eat. Spiritual food is as necessary to the soul as the natural food is to the body, and it is only in proportion as you feed that your profiting will “appear unto all”, 1 Tim 4: 15.

I have noticed that the older saints are more in the habit of feeding than the younger ones. With many of the latter there seems to be a tendency to store up knowledge rather than to feed the soul. I should not trouble to examine whether, as some say, the younger ones have or have not a larger and a better store than the older ones. I do not think that the possession of such a store is of much importance. They may have a cupboard full of food, but it must be admitted that while it is not used it does not nourish its owner, nor any one else! It is in danger of not only becoming mouldy, but of being found uneatable when it is brought out! Everything is only good in its season, even the manna could not be kept. God’s provision is Christ and only Christ.

I think that to eat is to appropriate, and I am sorry for those who, while diligent apparently in gathering knowledge, do not enjoy their food. It is found alone with God. He says, “Let us eat, and be merry”, and the prodigal was there. What could he say, and what could he do but according to the Father’s word?

From Food for the Faithful—vol 2, 1899