FEEDING ON JESUS – EXTRACT

God would have our inward thoughts and affections formed and nourished by feeding upon Christ, so that the way we think and feel about things might be according to Christ, and this would result in His being reproduced in us. Transformation according to Romans 12:2 is not brought about by rules and regulations imposed from without as demand; it is brought about from within, "by the renewing of your mind". The mind is renewed as we get it occupied and filled with the perfect way in which the will of God came into expression in the life of Jesus. What an insight we get into the "good and acceptable and perfect will of God" as we see it all, and feed on it all, as carried out in every detail in that holy life! We see it there not as demand but as supply – as food for us. As we appropriate it, and are nourished by it, the will of God becomes blessed to us, and we learn increasingly to hate the action of our own will. We have a new way of thinking about everything then. If Christ has become food to me the pride, vanity, and fashion of this world are as dust under my feet. There is then spiritual vigour through what we feed on to be in accord with Christ – and to prove what is "the good and acceptable and perfect will of God".

C.A. Coates “An Outline of Leviticus” pp.76,77