Flashback Friday Devotion #7 [2 kinds of food]

Hi, Everyone.
Today's devotion is from my personal journal dated April 15, 2007.

     I've been looking at scripture that includes references to food, which has been an interesting adventure. Today I read John 6:25-29, and part of it (verse 27) jumped out at me, "...Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you..." I took that to the Lord in prayer, and I "heard" Him say, "Change your focus from the physical to the spiritual, from food to Me."
     I remember the verse in Matthew 4:4, where Jesus quotes from the Old Testament, "Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." Physical food (bread) is found in the physical realm. Spiritual food (the Word, the Bread of Life) is found in the "mouth of God," the Bible.
     God is impressing upon me that feeding on His Word will enable me to resist the devil's attempts to lure me into the same old sinful habit of overeating and using food as a comfort or to fill a void that only God can fill.
     Not long ago, I prayed about John 10:10, "I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly." I knew that through Christ's death on the cross and believing in Him and accepting Him as my Savior and Lord, I have eternal life, but I had to admit that I did not consider my life as truly "abundant." I asked Him to show me how to have abundant life, for I didn't want to die before I die, which was what I felt I had been doing for a long time.
     Through a sermon of Pastor Scott's, I realized that no matter what I do, no matter how small and insignificant, I could "do all for the glory of God." I had been looking for something great that I could do for God, and it wasn't happening. When I realized that everything I do, if I do it for God, is significant, I began to feel like I was living a more abundant life.
     I feel now that God is showing me more of how to have an abundant life. He has shown me that, as a Christian, when I overeat, I deny the sufficiency of Christ, thereby missing out on the abundant life which Jesus gives. Every bite that I take that is more than what my body needs, Jesus asks, "Am I not enough?"

Today, make a conscious effort to focus more on the spiritual food than on the physical food.

Blessings,
Mary