What Are You Feeding On?

Have you been to a church or spoken with other Christian friends and heard (or made) the comment, “I am just not being fed”? What is this all about? I know in Scripture, Paul refers to the Word of God as milk and solid food (Hebrews 5:11-14), but being “fed” has everything to do with what you intake, and very little to do with the process of how this happens. I believe we are confusing what we want to hear with how we are being “fed.” Look at what Paul writes in Hebrews:

Hebrews 13:9 (ESV)
“Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.”

Jesus says He is the bread of life (John 6:50-59), and that to gain eternal life we must intake of Him. This passage does not speak to the methods or messenger required, but simply that in order to gain eternal life, there is only one food source that will accomplish this: Jesus Christ. One name for Jesus is the Logos or the Word of God. All we have to do to be fed is feast on Jesus – or in other words the Word of God (the Bible).

Saying that one is not being “fed” at church would be tantamount to walking into a restaurant, sitting down, ordering, being served a meal, not doing anything with it, and then complaining that you were not satisfied with the feeding. That was not a feeding: that was merely a meal “viewing”.

Maybe the issue is not the feeding source, but what you are doing with what is being offered? If it is from the Word of God, then there is a meal waiting every time a Bible is opened. Why not try ingesting the Word instead of just viewing it, and then stop talking about what you are not getting…you might find yourself all filled-up.

In His grip, 

Pastor Pat