You Are What You Eat: Growing Together in Hunger
“The more deeply you walk with Christ, the hungrier you get for Christ”
-John Piper
As we’ve taken time to reflect on the podcast over the last few weeks, I’ve been percolating on these words from Piper. Why? Because they so aptly seem to summarise how we’re feeling as we continue to dig into the Bible together.
It’s not that we’ve had our fill of Christ, and his Word, and now move onto something else. Far from it. The more that we’ve dug into Scripture together, the hungrier we’ve become for God’s word, and for applying it to every facet of our lives. We’ve tasted and seen that the Lord is truly good. We’ve grown in understanding and insight, however meagre the growth feels sometimes. And our appetites have grown more and more for the feast that awaits us, each time we open up the Bible together.
On the flip side, we’ve also seen more clearly than ever that ‘nibbling at the table of the world’, and ‘stuffing our souls with small things’ has a direct impact on our hunger for Christ and his Word, leaving ‘no room for the great’.
In essence, as we continue to open up the Bible together, we’re experiencing the age-old phrase that ‘you are what you eat’. The more that we feast on Scripture together, the more we are shaped by Christ and his ways. The more that we chose to nibble at the table of the world, stuffing our souls with the equivalent of ultra-processed-food, the less enamoured we are with Christ, and the soul-satisfying feast that he gives us in Himself.
What a marvel that we are hungrier now, than we were four years ago.
Oh Lord, stir our appetites to hunger more and more for you.
“Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare”
