Pull Up A Chair

When I was young my step father would sometimes cook steak on the grill. It was probably the best steak I'd ever eaten, even to this day. I would cut off small pieces and just suck on them in my mouth before chewing and swallowing. Even the fat would get sucked on for a few minutes before throwing it away. Some foods do that for me, and what is interesting is that God would like for us to sample Him in that manner! David wrote in Ps 34:8 "O taste and see that the LORD is good" I think the church has lost it's ability to truly have an appetite for the things of God. I remember reading one time where Jesus told His disciples that in order to walk with Him they must eat His body and drink His blood (John 6). Of course He didn't mean literally to eat Him, but what happens when we figuratively do so? I asked Him one day what that scripture meant, and I remember Him saying to me quite clearly, "when you eat something it is absorbed into your blood, it becomes part of you, when you learn to eat my flesh and drink of my blood it becomes part of you, you become one with me. I am the Word of Life, and when you read and meditate on my word, you are partaking of me." The more I spend alone with Him in His Word and allowing the Holy Spirit to breath through me, I'm partaking of Him. I'm wanting to get to that place, where every day I pull up a chair at His table and partake of Him. It can and must be developed with in us, it must be our desire to want this. John Piper wrote in the book, A Hunger For God, "If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. God did not create you for this. There is an appetite for God. And it can be awakened." And that my friends is the reality of it!