You are What You Eat

When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, O LORD God Almighty.- Jeremiah 15:16 (NIV)

Anyone who is aware of nutrition will share with you, we are to eat to live, not vice versa.  Based upon what we take in, we gain energy by which we conduct our daily functions,  working, playing, and even sleeping.  Your food supplies you with energy.  In essence, you are what you eat as the old phrase goes.  Yet, the Scriptures speak about taking in the Word of God.  As Jeremiah says God’s words can be a joy and a delight to our hearts.  What we learn is that we cannot simply take in God’s Word  and simply leave it at that.  We need to take it in daily as our daily bread, as fresh manna provided from heaven above.  As we do so, we begin to exercise our faith, using up energy supplied to us by God’s Word.  From there, we give out from what we have stored up within us.  And, after we serve to the point of exhaustion, we realize that we must return again to God’s Word for another filling of His power to go on again.  Truly, if we are what we eat, then we will exhibit what we have taken in from God’s Word as we put his principles into practice.