"Nonvital Vittles"

 "Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead." (John 649 KJV)

  "I don't want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. All of them ate the same spiritual food, and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness." (1 Corinthians 10:1-5 NLT)

 Looking up the meaning of the term, "nonvital," there was a definition that spoke about nonvital organs; the eye was listed as an example of a nonvital organ. I find that to be rather interesting, as God will use the ear to communicate with us, but the devil will usually temp us by using our eyes. Not that this means anything regarding this verse, because this verse deals with eating, not seeing; or does it? 

 Interesting message that was shared at church yesterday, because it happened to be about peace; the type of peace which passes all understanding! I know that there are things we don't understand, so it is really not all that important that we don't see something, in order to understand that something is true or not. But God does allow us to experience whatever it is that He promises, with the eye of hearts.

 A really good example of what that looks like, besides the great examples given yesterday, was when God had shown Abraham his descendants, because telling him they would be as numerous as the stars or sands of the seashore, was not helping Abraham believe in the promise. We find this illustration given in Genesis 15:13-16, as God was making an agreement with Abraham, who at that time was called Abram. 

 Sometimes there is more to listening than meets the eye! What needs to be penetrated is the heart, which God's Word does rather well, if we are listening...

"See, my servant will prosper; he will be highly exalted. But many were amazed when they saw him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man. And he will startle many nations. Kings will stand speechless in his presence. For they will see what they had not been told; they will understand what they had not been told about." (Isaiah 52:13-15 NLT)