Watch What You Feed On

Focus: 2 Kings 4:40 KJV: 40. So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

Read Luke 24:23-31

The life of a being depends so much on what it feeds on. For man, it is bread for the eater, and seed for the Sower. Nevertheless, to live depends also on the source of the bread upon which we feed. Some bread may emanate from uncanny sources that snuff life out of the eater. But there is a bread that comes down from heaven: whoever partakes of that bread has life and has it eternally. That bread is called the Bread of Life. However, not everyone that presents himself as representative of God is a possessor of the Bread of life. They serve thorny, spicy and poisonous bread that may end up offering death to the ones that the Good Shepherd has asked us to feed.

Elisha was a great messenger of God who possessed the good bread. But his servant Gehazi did not. To him, bread was bread. When Elisha observed a dearth in the land, he asked Gehazi to seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. Rather than find life in the pot, the sons of the prophets saw death in what Gehazi presented, and cried out. At another time, after the resurrection of Christ, those who had been fed life by Him but refused to imbibe it, had issues appreciating what happened by His death and the news of His resurrection. Those who were meant to witness about the finished work of salvation were confused about it. Then, Christ appeared to teach two of them from scripture, all which while, they did not recognize Him. He therefore, broke the bread anew and gave them to it, and as they received life, their eyes of understanding were enlightened such that they recognized their Lord.

Today, many people lack recognition of the Lord. Some of such people have been assigned to teach others. Yet, when the blind leads the blind, they both would fall away. There are those who offer poison continually to the flock, taking them far away from the person of the Lord. There are still those who do know God and offer Him, being the Bread of life, to others. From these ones, life is served a la carte. The Lord enjoins us to test all spirits and hold on only to that which is true. What you feed on determines whether you have life or otherwise. Seek from today the right source for the Bread of life and never stop feeding from that pot. The Lord offers us only life. The other option is from the enemy. Please don’t, or rather, stop eating it.

Prayer:

Father, I thank you for the grace to know you from your Word, which is the Bread of Life. From today, please create a bar between me and every poisonous pot of bread being presented instead of the Bread of Life. Let me always be where the true Bread that is from you is served, so that I may have life and have it more abundantly through my clear knowledge of you, in Jesus’ name.

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