Sunday, November 18, 2012

Dead Food - Real Life


Food is another display for us of death and resurrection.  We don’t think about it because the act of eating is so normal to us as creatures.  But Jesus spoke, and quite literally, when He said that “Man does not live by bread alone.”  Food is a source of life for us, and yet food is a dead substance.  How can that which is dead give life?
 
Nourishment is a miracle; it is similar to the proclaimed sacrificial miracle that a seed must die in order to produce fruit.  It takes the Word of God to bring forth life from this death and so by its deadness, food discloses our complete dependence on the Word that proceeds from the mouth of God for something which is dead to become for us  - Life.  Welcome to the Table and welcome to Jesus Christ. (HT Leithart, BAtH p.18)

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