Eating and Drinking Christ as our Spiritual Food is the Focal Point of God’s Building

God wants to change our diet to a diet of Christ as our spiritual food, for whatever we eat of Christ reconstitutes us to make us His dwelling place; the focal point of God’s building today is the Christ we have eaten, digested, and assimilated, and this One in us is an eternal memorial!

This week we come to the topic, Our Spiritual Food, Our Spiritual Rock, and the Contents of the Lord’s table, mainly based on 1 Cor. 10-11 and some portions in Exodus.

What a wonderful Christ we have! God has given us the all-inclusive Christ to be our enjoyment and experience, and we as believers in Christ simply need to remain under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity to enjoy Him, partake of His riches, and be constituted with Him to become the building of God, the church!

As we go through book after book in the New Testament, we can see many aspects of the all-inclusive Christ for our enjoyment, and we can read and pray over the word of God to take Christ into us and make Him part of our constitution.

Christ is so rich! He is so wonderful! He is so all-inclusive!

He is the Father’s delight, the Father’s Beloved, and He is also our portion for us to enjoy!

He is our spiritual food for us to eat and live by, and He is our spiritual rock following us to give us living water whenever we need it.

Furthermore, He is the contents of the Lord’s Table, for the Lord’s table is simply displaying Christ as our everything for our enjoyment.

May we open to the Lord again and again and be unveiled to see Him, enjoy Him, eat Him, drink Him, and be constituted with Him for the building up of the church as the dwelling place of God.

He wants to become our food – and He wants to change our diet so that we eat no more of the things of the world but rather, eat Him, be constituted with Him, and be filled with Him as our inner nourishment.

What does it mean for Christ to be our real manna? What does it mean for us to eat Christ? How can we eat Christ?

We need to open to the Lord as we come to His word so that we may learn to eat Christ and partake of His riches in spirit.

As we come to the Lord in His word and pray over His word, as we fellowship with Him throughout the day, the Lord has a way to speak to us, nourish us, supply us, and reconstitute us with Himself.

Oh, may the Lord shine on us! May He really shine on us to expose us and show us how much we need Christ!

We need Him not only in our knowledge but also in our experience and enjoyment!

God Wants to Change our Diet for us to Eat Christ as our Spiritual Food to Live by Christ and Build up the Church

1 Cor. 10:3 tells us that all the children of Israel ate the same food in the wilderness; they ate the manna, which was the food which God gave them to eat day by day for forty years (John 6:31-35).

If we read Exodus 16 we see how God provided for His people to eat manna day by day; the deep truth in this chapter is that God wants to change our diet.

God doesn’t just give us Christ to eat; He wants us to have a change of diet to a diet of Christ as our spiritual food.

God wants to change our diet for us to eat Christ as our spiritual food, the real manna sent by God the Father for us as God’s chosen people to live by Christ (1 Cor. 10:3; John 6:31-35, 48-51, 57-58).

The book of Exodus is a book like no other in the Bible, for it shows us a clear picture of God’s full salvation.

If we read the life-study messages on the book of Exodus we will be very much enlightened concerning God’s full salvation and we will be helped in our enjoyment and experience of Christ as our salvation for God’s building.

We need to see not only that God gives us Christ as the bread of life, the living bread, the bread of God, and the bread which comes down out of heaven for us to eat, but even more, that God wants to change our diet.

Just as the people of Israel came out of Egypt and needed to have a change of diet from the Egyptian food to the heavenly food, so we need to have a change of diet.

It is one thing to tell someone not to love the world and the things in the world, which exhortation may sound good but may not have much impact.

But it is something else for us to learn to eat Christ and have a change of diet to eating Christ.

Eating Christ as our spiritual food is related to God’s building.

When the children of Israel were in Egypt, eating Egyptian food and living in the Egyptian way, they could not build the tabernacle for God to have a building on earth.

But after being reconstituted with the heavenly food, the manna coming out of heaven, they could build the tabernacle for God to dwell among them.

We believers in Christ are in the world, but by faith and baptism we have come out of the world to be sanctified unto Christ, a holy people unto Him.

But we are still constituted with many things in the world, so we need to have a change of diet.

We are not qualified to build up the church as the Body of Christ if we are constituted with the world and do not have Christ as our constitution.

Only by eating Christ as our spiritual food to be constituted with Him can we build up the church as the dwelling place of Christ.

We need to daily eat Christ until we have a change of diet to a diet of Christ.

Day by day we need to pay the price to rise up a bit early to enjoy the Lord as our food.

Each one of us needs to “gather the manna” by contacting the Lord to obtain the daily supply from Him.

Just as the people of Israel had to gather each day’s portion of manna, one omerful, so we need to pay the price to enjoy Christ.

By God giving them manna to eat, He indicated that His intention was not just to bring them into the good land, but, as they come into the good land, they would be reconstituted in their very nature.

God wants to change the nature of His people; He wants to change their very constitution for the accomplishment of His purpose.

God today gives us nothing to eat but Christ as our spiritual food, Christ as the real manna.

As we eat Christ daily, we are reconstituted with Him and we live because of Him (John 6:57).

As we eat Christ, our constitution is changing for us to become the same as He is.

We not only build up the church by eating Christ continually – we ourselves, our very being constituted with Christ, becomes the building of God.

After being reconstituted with the Christ we eat, digest, and assimilate, we become the dwelling place of God.

Our constitution depends upon our diet. If we feed on the things in the world, our diet is Egyptian and we cannot build up the church as the Body of Christ.

But if we eat Christ day by day, our constitution will be of Christ, and we will build up the church by our very being.

May we come to the Lord in His word day by day and allow God to change our diet to a diet of Christ so that we may be reconstituted with Him, live Christ, and become part of God’s dwelling place on earth today.

Lord, have a way to change our diet to a diet of Christ so that we may eat Christ, be constituted with Christ, live Christ, and become part of God’s dwelling place! Amen, Lord, we open to You. We want to eat Christ as our spiritual food today. Save us from eating other things. Save us from eating things of the world. May we eat Christ as our heavenly food, the heavenly manna, so that we may be reconstituted with Christ in our very being. We open to You, Lord, and we allow You to change our very nature by reconstituting us with Yourself. May we wake up a little earlier each day to spend time with You and gather the manna, eating Christ as our spiritual food. Work Yourself into us and change our constitution as we feed on Christ as our unique heavenly food. Reconstitute us with Yourself. We want to eat Christ and live because of Christ. May we eat Christ as our spiritual food day by day until we become the dwelling place of God!

The Christ we Eat, Digest, and Assimilate is an Eternal Memorial and the Focal Point of God’s Building

There are many aspects related to Christ being our unique spiritual food; one particular aspect is that a portion of the manna was put in a golden pot in the ark of the covenant before God for an eternal memorial.

This shows us that whatever we eat of Christ to be our reconstituting element and our supply to make us God’s dwelling place in this universe will be an eternal memorial (Exo. 16:16, 32).

God giving His people manna daily to eat was not just Him providing for them so that they don’t die of hunger in the wilderness, but Him changing their very diet to a heavenly diet for them to be a heavenly people building up His heavenly habitation on earth.

Us eating Christ as our spiritual food day by day is not just for our spiritual existence before God; even more, whatever we eat of Christ, digest of Him, and assimilate of Him in our being is an eternal memorial and the focal point of God’s building.

The Christ we enjoy and experience becomes our very constitution; He becomes the reconstituting element for us as God’s people to be part of His building. Wow!

What do you think we will remember for eternity when we live one with God in and as the New Jerusalem?

The only thing that is worth an eternal memorial is the Christ we have eaten, digested, and assimilated.

For eternity, it is not worth remembering how much money we made, what we did for work, what we accomplished in this world, or what others did to us, whether positive or negative.

Our job is not worth remembering. Our sins and failures will not be remembered.

Even the nice house or nice car we have today will not be remembered.

What is worthy of eternal memorial before God is the Christ we eat, digest, and assimilate.

Only the Christ who has become our constitution is worthy of being an eternal memorial.

If we’re daily right with the Lord and eat Him consistently, we will have a solid constitution of Christ, and we will have much to say about Him in eternity.

If we enjoy the Lord with the saints today in the church life with all its meetings, we will have a rich deposit of Christ and much to remember before the Lord on that day.

The Lord commanded Moses and Aaron to take an omerful of manna – the quantity that each Israelite was to gather every morning for their daily supply – and put it in a golden pot, which was to be put in the Ark, which was in the Holy of Holies, in the innermost part of the sanctuary of God.

We can say that the tabernacle is the center of the universe, for that’s where God dwells, and the focal point of the tabernacle is the Holy of Holies.

However, the focal point of the Holy of Holies is the Ark, and the focal point of the Ark is the hidden manna, the eternal memorial of what we eat, digest, and assimilate of Christ. Wow!

On one hand, we enjoy Christ and we are reconstituted with Him to become part of God’s dwelling place.

On the other hand, what we eat, digest, and assimilate of Christ in our being becomes an eternal memorial before God.

Furthermore, the focal point of God’s building, the church, is the Christ constituted into our being through our eating, digesting, and assimilating Christ.

This should also be the focal point of our Christian life today.

The hidden Christ, the Christ that we not only enjoy but also eat, digest, and assimilate so that He becomes the reconstituting element of our inner being, this One is the focal point of our Christian life and church life.

We are intrinsically in the church life and we live a Christian life in the most intrinsic way when we eat Christ, digest Christ, and assimilate Christ, so that He becomes the focal point of our being and living.

Just as the manna in the golden pot was the focal point of God’s dwelling place, so Christ as the manna eaten by us is the focal point of God’s building today (see Heb. 9:3-4; Eph. 4:16; Col. 2:19).

May we eat Christ, digest Christ, and assimilate Christ day by day so that He would reconstitute our being, become the focal point of our Christian life and church life, and become an eternal memorial before God!

Lord Jesus, we want to eat, digest, and assimilate Christ day by day so that we may live the Christian life and church life. Keep us eating You. Reconstitute us with yourself. May we be inwardly reconstituted and reconstructed with the Christ we eat, digest, and assimilate. Have a thoroughfare in our being to deposit Yourself in us, work Yourself into us, and constitute us with Yourself. Amen, Lord, may the Christ we eat, enjoy, digest, and assimilate become the focal point of our Christian life and church life! Keep us eating You and assimilating You so that we may be intrinsically built into the dwelling place of God! Hallelujah, whatever we eat of Christ will be our reconstituting element and our supply to make us God’s dwelling place in this universe! Praise the Lord, the Christ we eat, digest, and assimilate will be an eternal memorial in the New Jerusalem! Amen, Lord, may we eat You both personally and with the saints so that You may reconstitute our being for Your building today!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ted Williamson in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Exodus, msgs. 32-34 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2) (2024 December Training), week 16 (msg. 4), Our Spiritual Food, Our Spiritual Rock, and the Contents of the Lord’s Table.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Christ is our manna true, / Our bread of life indeed; / He’s our supply of nourishment, / As on Him now we feed. / From Egypt Israel fled / Into a desert land; / Egyptian food they left behind, / And wandering began. / One day, the manna fell, / Oh, what a wondrous feat; / This was the bread the Lord had giv’n / For Israel to eat. (Hymns #1147 stanzas 1-3)
  – Teach me to exercise my spirit, Lord, / Thy Word to study, so to contact Thee, / That Thou, the living Word, with Scripture, too, / As one my daily manna e’er may be. (Hymns #801 stanza 6)
  – In my spirit deeper still / I would touch the Lord I love, / Touch Him in His hidden depth / And His hidden manna prove. (Hymns #760 stanza 7)