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Originally Posted by awareness
Freedom, I remember a song in the Supplement, with the words "eating, eating, eating." We sang it with great gusto and enthusiasm -> "Oh Lord Jesus!"
The way to eating Jesus was : "Calling on the Lord," and "Prayreading the scripture."
And we were told that by doing those things we would be transformed into the image of Christ.
I was excited about that. I was becoming divine! And all I had to do was call on the Lord, and prayread the Bible! Yea! Lord! Amen!
Spoiler alert: It didn't work. All it did was make me look and act silly. It was grasping at vapors.
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Freedom is right: it is unbalanced. "Eating is the way" is not the way.
Luke 16 has the parable of the steward. Repeatedly uses the word 'oikonomiea', or economy. Not translated as 'dispensing but rather 'management's or 'stewardship'. You think Jesus didn't know about God's economy, here? It's about obedience, not eating.
Jesus was obedient, we weren't. Now our faith in his obedience restores us.
Jesus said, "My food is to do the Father's will." It's about obedience.
The disciples asked, "What work can we do" to please the Father. Jesus said, "Believe". It's still about obedience. Just as he obeyed the Father, now we obey him. John 14:21; 15:10.
Remember Aaron's oldest sons? They sat in front of God, they ate and drank, they got halfway down the mountain & were vaporized. Eating wasn't sufficient.
The children of Israel ate heavenly manna for 40 years in the wilderness. But they died there. Eating wasn't sufficient; eating wasn't "the way".