Have you ever read something that no matter how much you tried, you just didn't 'get it'? Oh, how I have felt like a Pharisee at times…
As a young boy, I can remember reading verses such as, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." and being 'ok' with it because I just wouldn't understand exactly how all of that jazz happened anyways. No big deal, right? Then there's some things that Jesus said that just baffled me into a dog-chasing-tail scene…
“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 you." -Jesus
My first thoughts were, "eat flesh and drink what!?" For years, I was confused. I was confused not as to whether I should eat flesh and drink blood Dracula style, but as to what exactly those words meant as they leapt from the lips of Jesus. "What's the true substance of these words, God?"
Reading Psalm 23, and rolling in what "You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows…" truly means, I saw a sketched picture of a table holding not a feast of the most delicious foods that man can set his eyes on but a table where each cup and each plate was overflowing with words describing the character of God.
It's His character that we are to feast on. He is our every breath. He is our provision. He is our source. He is I AM, and He desires for us to feast on Him – to feast on His character.
One morning a few weeks later, God gave me this scripture: John 6:53-56
“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 you. Whoever feeds on 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. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him."
Eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Jesus looks like this: Ingesting who Jesus truly is by feasting on the character of the Father.
Spend time thanking God for His attributes. Dine on His goodness. Dine on His loving kindness. Dine on His gentleness. Dine on His wisdom. Keep going… Pray it over yourself and roll in it until you look, sound, act, feel, and even smell just like Him… then doing it again… then do it again…
This is God's heart for you – to know Him as He truly is.
"Feast on Me." -God
