We Are What We Eat

by Ken Pullen

copyright 2012

Scripture used appears in Italics & is from the King James Version

I awakened in the night

hungry

yearning

spirit churning

soul making groaning noises

knowing nourishment was what I needed

literal craving

hunger

thirst

for

the

Word of God

We are what we eat

be it the refuse this world regurgitates

most digest

or

we sup on the truth

of God’s Holy Word

We are what we eat…

most filled with additives

chemicals imbalanced

spirits dead

misled

under fed

over fed

the heating winds of deception

filling most heads

hearts

mouths

Walking the path

I’d seen

see

strewn bodies

busy

writhing

wrangling

spirits choking

malnourished gluttony

abounding

false teachings

unsound doctrine

resounding

echoing through the dead canyons of the hearts

it beat within

so much sin

so much gorging

eating

devouring

lying, dying words

the vanity of man

Thus saith the Lord God:

An evil, an only evil,

behold is come.

An end is come, the end is come;

it watcheth for thee;

behold it is come.

I sit in dimly lit room

allowing the Holy Spirit

to illuminate me

through His

Word

His sacred, holy, righteous Word

eating of the spiritual meat

within

hunger pangs abate

nourishment of the soul

abounds

at the sounds

of the Living Word

fed to my beating heart

The morning

is come unto thee,

O thou that dwellest in the land;

the time is come,

the day of trouble is near,

and not the joyful shouting upon the mountains.

Now

will I

shortly pour out my fury

upon thee;

and I will judge thee

according to thy ways,

and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.

And mine eye shall not spare,

neither will I have pity;

I will recompense thee

according to thy ways

and thine abominations

that are in the midst of thee;

and ye shall know that

I am

the Lord who smiteth…

They shall cast their silver in the streets,

and their gold shall be removed;

their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them

in the day of wrath

of the Lord; they shall not satisfy their souls,

neither fill their [stomachs],

because it is the stumbling block

of their iniquity.

I look out

upon the vastness of the table

of this world

set before me to witness

watching the vapid death

scurrying, worrying

gossiping, lying

further dying

ravished for the meat of truth

they dine, no, consume

in disgusting gluttony

every lie set on the table before them

while air remains under the plate

the steaming lies

false teachings

are served upon

Slothfulness

casteth into a deep sleep,

and an idle soul

shall suffer hunger.

I duck, dodge

the flying sludge

of the perpetual food fight

served up by the world

blue plate specials available in most churches every Sunday morning

to take my bread

in solace

feasting upon

the nourishing

life-giving

Word of God

in those times

ahungered

thirsting

always turning in thankful prayer

for all the Lord provides

upon the table of my soul

I live

by the will of the Lord

I seek

to attain

loving the Lord my God

with all my heart,

with all my soul,

with all my being,

serving Him

not sitting

nor being served at the table of this world

instead

daily

filled by the food,

the meat,

of Jehovah Elyon’s

nourishing

life-giving

Word!

My doctrine shall drop as the rain,

my speech shall distill as the dew,

as the small rain upon the tender herb,

and as the showers upon the grass…

Therefore, thou shalt love the Lord,

thy God,

and keep his charge, and his statutes,

and his [ordinances],

and his commandments,

always…

And it shall come to pass,

if ye shall hearken

diligently

unto my commandments

which I command you this day,

to love the Lord your God,

and to serve him

with all your heart,

and with all your soul,

That I will give you the rain of your land in due season,

the first rain

and the latter rain,

that thou mayest gather in thy [grain],

and thy wine,

and thine oil.

And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle,

that thou mayest eat and be full.

Take heed to yourselves,

that your heart be not deceived,

and ye turn aside,

and serve other gods, and worship them;

And then the Lord’s wrath

be kindled against you,

and he shut up the heaven,

that there be no rain,

and that the land yield not her fruit;

and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land

which the Lord giveth you.

Stomachs churn

insides ache

groan

around this decaying world can be heard the moan

of spirits walking in darkness

misled

by all the malnourishment

lies

deception

they are fed

I awakened

once among those forsaking the meat of truth

the life-giving sustenance

the Lord our God sets upon a holy table

now

no pangs within

forgiven of sin

in the shed blood of the Lamb

I lie prone in reverence

living to attain the prize

serving God Almighty

The Son

growing through the ingesting of spiritual food

from the Word of God

to

hear the Lord say,

“Well done, thou good and faithful servant;

thou hast been faithful over a few things,

I will make thee ruler over many things.

Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”

We are what we eat

either sound doctrine

edifying

nourishing

pleasing and acceptable unto the Lord

or we eat of Slewfoot’s deception

for the heart of men is nothing but deceitful

if they do not place their faith

complete trust

hope

love

life

in the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ

and the Spirit of God

And Jesus said

unto them,

I am the bread of life;

he that cometh to me shall never hunger,

and he that believeth on me

shall never thirst.

I am the living bread

that came down from heaven;

if any man eat of this bread,

he shall live forever;

and the bread that I will give is my flesh,

which I will give

for the life of the world.