Read this today, please, with an open mind. I pray God has inspired me to write this and that it is not my own willfulness. It is true, I am capable of assuming what I do is God's will when it may be my own. So what I say, I say in gratitude of God's grace.
Reading John 6:3 today. "The Spirit can make life. Sheer muscle and willpower don't make anything happen. Every word I have spoken to you is a Spirit-word, and so it is life-making." (The Message) These words followed the reaction to some of Jesus' followers when Christ spoke to them about eating HIs Body and drinking HIs Blood. They found this too radical to follow. Jesus answered them by explaining the Spirit of God works within us so that we are willing to risk receiving Christ's Spirit. And the words Christ speaks are only because the Spirit of God has given them to Him. And so, we eat His Word given by God's Spirit, and is if you will, the Body and Blood of Christ.
Now, I read Scripture daily as do many of you, and I eat up His Word, which is full of the very life of Jesus. Also, I do take communion in church which signifies the Body of Christ, the Bread of Life. Both methods of receiving Christ are real to me.
But for many people, so much of what is real to me is hidden from their sight. Loving Christ allows me to accept a wafer and a sip of wine as Christ's Body and Blood. But my meal of Christ are the words He spoke on earth which came from the very Spirit of God. These I eat, absorb, act upon, and, I pray, share in this small way. So, I'm just sayin', the word of Christ through the Holy Spirit is Christ's very Body and Blood. He lives within His Word. And I, by faith, shall find Him in those words and find this life-making.
I'm just sayin'.
Because of the Spirit of God, I am....Jo
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