The Bread of Heaven

Nowadays a lot of emphasis is placed on eating healthy foods. Every day there are new articles about processed foods, GMO’s, and too much sugar and the dangers of an unbalanced diet and over eating. To be honest, I find myself second-guessing more and more what I feed my children. Maybe I shouldn’t give them cereal or waffles for breakfast. Who knows? 

It’s not wrong to take good care of our bodies and make healthy choices, but still, could it be, that we’re overly focused on the temporal? Our bodies are slowly aging and ultimately will die, or be transformed in a moment when Jesus returns. (1 Corinthians 15:52) Our souls, however, will either live forever or be eternally damned. 

Jesus says in the famous Sermon on the Mount: “Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:31-33 

The good news about God’s Word is that there is nothing unhealthy or bad about it. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2 Timothy 3:16 

You also can’t overeat and will only get fat in a good way :). 
Psalm 1:1-3 says: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 

And in Jeremiah 17:5-8 it says: Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 

So now we know it’s important to eat spiritual food, the more the better, and God promises spiritual health and fruitfulness to those who trust in Him and meditate on His Word, but lets back up a little. In order to be spiritually fed we need to believe who God is and what He says. 

But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6 

And there is only one way to come to God. 

Jesus. 

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me. John 14:6 

If you are not a believer in Jesus you are abiding in the wrath of God. It’s a very scary place to be in. If you are not looking to Jesus as a substitute to pay the price for your sin you will have to pay for it yourself. 

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, 1 Peter 3:18a 

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. John 3:36  

There is nothing that will satisfy God’s wrath against sin except the perfect blood of Jesus. 

Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. Romans 5:9 

That’s why there is something called everlasting punishment. Outside of Christ, God’s wrath can never be satisfied and therefore there is everlasting destruction for all those who refuse to obey the gospel. 

In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 2 Thesalonions 1:8-9 

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:16-17 

For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 
And Jesus said unto them, I am the Bread of Life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst. John 6:33-35