The Eternal Feast: Part 1
John Catanzaro
Feasting on good food forever sounds good to me.
Jesus is the forever feast and He commands us to feast on His Word. Everything that is consumed as food, whether soul food, spirit food or physical food is weighted with an eternal value and I am learning to think long and hard about the type of food I consume.
We are what we feast off of.
The Bible is rich in wisdom about the foods that are good for nurture. There are bad foods for our physical body and bad foods for the mind and spirit. The spirit and mind foods that are bad are really bad!!
Some may not think that pornography is a food but it definitely is a mind and spirit food. It is a deadly food! It is weighted in eternity as defiling, degrading and evil. There are foods that become our idols and are so habit forming that it seems we cannot live without them. They become an obsession and we are consumed by their harmful drawing lusts. The eternal feast is free from sin and lust with all of its severe consequences;
- pain,
- suffering
- sadness
- separation from God
Feasting on Jesus
The Jesus feast is pure nurturing food forever and it builds upon itself a pure perfectness in glory that cannot be matched with any food produced by humankind. Man truly ate the “bread of angels” and exchanged all for pleasures that perish. This is the biggest whoops permeating the hearts of people feeding on pleasures that perish! There is no middle ground with God on this as He hates every appearance of evil.
He wants us all to hate every appearance of evil fleeing the lures of evil as Joseph’s example of running from the adulterous seductions of Potiphar’s wife the high officer of the Egyptian Pharaoh (Genesis 39:7-23). I love the way this Scripture bears out that the Lord was with Joseph and made him to prosper. This being the highest blessing for not exchanging the eternal food of heaven for the age old deception of Satan pleasurable but deadly! We will discuss this in detail further on the next blog “Wrong Tree Wrong Food.”
This Life is Our School
God the Father has given us the opportunity to feast on His Son and with this comes the promise of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is and should be our
comforter,
provider,
friend,
helper,
soul and spiritual food source while we have our physical existence.
This is our school during our sojourn on Earth. To avoid all the foods bringing perishable harm jeopardizing our eternal bliss with Christ. He wants us to learn to feast on the eternal foods while we live preparing us for the glorious feast to come. This is the ministry of the Holy Spirit right along side us keeping us from the harmful foods. This gentle persistent Spirit of God speaking to our conscience and hearts telling us firmly don’t do that, stay away from this, this tree is bad for you….. Listen, He speaks to you… Thank you God for not giving up on us we need You, Help us to be the aroma of Christ.
The Forever Feast authored by a wonderful Christian physician, Paul Brand bears out that in 2 Corinthians 2:15-16 the Apostle Paul says that … “We are the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other the fragrance of life.”
The Eternal Feast Part 1
The Eternal Feast Part 2
The Eternal Feast Part 3
The Eternal Feast Part 4
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