Tuesday Reading: John 6:60-63
Key Verse: John 6:63
63 It is the Spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.
Devotion:
It still amazes me how people take a part of a sentence or a phrase and turn it into something that the original author did not mean. Our language is by no means a foolproof method of communicating and we have to remember that. When we read a snippet from our bibles we need to know how that snippet was being used, we need to know the context that it was being used in. Can you imagine what would go through your mind if someone stood up and said that His flesh was food and His blood drink for us? I know we know that truth now, but can you imagine what you would have thought if that was the first time that you heard that?
Jesus did not say that people had to literally eat His flesh or drink His blood but rather to take in the living flesh and blood that He gave them through what He was saying. Believing that He is the Son of God and knowing that if we do believe in that that we will receive eternal life. How else can we understand that than by thinking of that in terms of eating and drinking something that will make us no longer hunger and thirst? That is exactly what God’s Word should do for us because we should no longer feel the need to seek out any other words than the truth that we have received.
That is why Jesus said that the flesh does not profit us. We eat and then after a while we grow hungry again. We drink and after a while we grow thirsty again. Even though we thirst for His Word continually we no longer are seeking something to fill that void that we had, we are seeking because we wish to know more of that truth; we are seeking because we enjoy what we are receiving. God wants us to be filled with His Word so that we will not have room for the junk that we had been seeking before we got to know Him. God wants us to be happy and content in His Word and in His arms.
Points to Ponder:
Are you still seeking something?
Do you take your fill of God’s Word every day?