When God Says …
“The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:52-54 KJV)
The Jews, rigidly focused on the physical, exactly like the present worldly culture we are in, were totally thrown off by these emphatic remarks of the Lord Jesus Christ. They couldn't get a grasp on His spiritually coded call that it is a must to eat His flesh and to drink His blood to gain eternal life. Comprehension and acceptance of these truths require a transformation of mind and heart. This calls for a paradigm lift from carnality to spirituality, from the natural to the supernatural. Using the analogy of eating His flesh and drinking His blood is one very deep and ciphered message the Lord gave to refine those who truly seek and follow Him. As already declared by the Lord Jesus, only those who are sent by the Father will come to Him and that when He receives them no one can snatch them from His and the Father's hands (John 10:28). They and we, all who rest in grace by faith in Jesus and are born again, get hold of these truths not in the physical, but in the spirit between us and God.
The moment we are born again by faith in Christ Jesus, we are lifted up to a new spiritual realm of understanding. His message and His Words become clear to our hearing, as we don't hear Him in the physical. We listen and hear Him, in our spiritual nature. Walking the narrow path to eternity, we constantly eat His flesh and drink His blood. Again, these are hard to explain and understand to those whose perspectives are in the flesh and religious systems. They're blinded to see things of the true God who sent His only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
In our life as a truly new creation, we set a daily habit of remembering Him by eating His body and drinking His blood, as He has established with the disciples. It is written, He said: “For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.” (Luke 22:18-20 ESV)
And I say, AMEN!
Daily reflections by:
F. A. Frias
PFC Ministries
(When God says... I say, AMEN! is a provocative reflection of the Lord's holy Word. It intends to challenge every seeker of truth to dig deep into the core of the Word of Life to point every being to Christ Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith, and to draw revelations for change, for nourishment and for strength of every soul.)
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