Have You Given Up Eating?

Thought for the Week: HAVE YOU GIVEN UP EATING? Everybody has a good excuse for not attending church. If you take those excuses and apply them to other things we do (or don't do), like eating, they might look like this list. I don't eat any more because: 1. I was forced to eat as a child. 2. People who eat all the time are hypocrites; they aren't really hungry. 3. There are so many different kinds of food that I can't decide what to eat. 4. I used to eat, but I got bored and stopped. 5. I only eat on special occasions, like Christmas and Easter. 6. None of my friends will eat with me. 7. I'll start eating when I get older. 8. I don't really have time to eat. 9. I don't believe that eating does anybody any good. It is just a crutch. 10. Restaurants and grocery stores are only after your money. Giving a lame excuse for rejecting your Creator is just as silly as giving up eating. A relationship with your Maker is as important as regular, balanced meals. Without spiritual food, we will die. (1 Peter 2:2). --author unknown to me "Jesus replied, "I am the bread of life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry again. Those who believe in me will never thirst. ... the bread from heaven gives eternal life to everyone who eats it. I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; this bread is my flesh, offered so the world may live." Then the people began arguing with each other about what he meant. "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" they asked. So Jesus said again, "I assure you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you. But those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them at the last day. For my flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink. All who eat my flesh and drink my blood remain in me, and I in them." " John 6:35,50-56 NLT