When Christ asks us to feed on his flesh a wildly vivid picture comes to mind. At first the thought of eating Christ’s flesh is revolting. It turns stomach and mind. But Christ was asking something much more than literally eating.
He was asking for partakers. He was asking us to let him in the the depths of our heart. To make Him more essential than food. To appreciate His humanity and deity. To eat Christ’s body is to feed on the thought of his perfect humanity until our own humanity is strengthened and cleansed and brightened by him.
Jesus wants to be our nourishment. He is asking us to rely more on Him than the bread we eat 3 times a day. He wants us to have Him in us. He wants us to have first hand information to share. He doesn’t want us to talk about him. He wants us to talk to Him. He wants to be known.
You must stop thinking of Christ as a subject for theological debate, or a figure in the bible. You must take Him into you, and you must come into Christ, and then you will have real life.
When he told us to eat his flesh and drink his blood, he was telling us to feed our hearts and souls and minds on his humanity and deity to revitalize our lives with his life until we are filled with the life of God.
Worship the Bread of life. Worship Jesus.
Break the bread of life, O Lord
Break the bread to me
As you broke the bread, O Lord
That day beside the sea
Throughout your word, I seek you Lord
My spirit longs for Thee
So break the bread of life, O Lord
Break the bread to me
Bless your holy Word, O Lord
Bless you word to me
As you blessed the bread, O Lord
That day by Galilee
Then all my chains shall fall away
And I shall find my peace
So bless your holy word, O Lord
Bless your word to me
Bread of life
You are the bread of life
You became flesh, my Righteousness
Jesus, you are
Throughout your word, I seek you Lord
My spirit longs for Thee
So break the bread of life, O Lord
Break the bread to me
Break the bread to me
Break the bread to me
John 6:52-59 ESV
52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 So Jesus said to them, “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. 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59 Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.