[September 20]
For the Bread of God is He which cometh down
from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
John 6:33
THE more people are satisfied with earthly things
the less inclination they will have for the heavenly
things, and the more we are satisfied with the heavenly
things the less of appetite will we have for the earthly
things. The new nature flourishes at the expense of
the old nature, and the new ambitions, hopes, and desires
at the expense of the old. Likewise when the
old nature flourishes it is at the expense of the new
in all of life's affairs. Let us, then, realizing the difference
between the food that perisheth and the food
that brings divine blessings—eternal life—let us choose
the latter, let us feed more and more upon the Lord
and upon his Word, and thus grow strong in the Lord
and in the power of his might, and be more and more
weaned from the world, its spirit, its hopes, its ambitions.
We seek a heavenly country, a heavenly kingdom,
a heavenly nature, and heavenly qualities, fitted
and prepared for that heavenly nature. We have found
the great Life-giver, the One who can and does supply
this Bread from heaven. It is our great privilege to be
the dispensers of this Bread. "Give ye them to eat."
"He that hath an ear let him hear." Z'04-79
R3334:4(Hymn 96)