Because I have been teaching through John 6 the past few weeks I have been thinking a lot about Jesus' statements that He is bread and water for life. As Christians we know the truth of those statements yet frequently we continue to live as though we were searching for sustenance elsewhere. Too often we are nothing more than spiritual pandas.
A panda is actually a carnivore and its digestive system is designed to eat a widely varied diet yet it more or less subsists on bamboo shoots, which have all the nutritional content of cardboard. The failure of bamboo to adequately provide for the nutritional needs of the panda requires it to consume great quantities of bamboo in order to provide what it needs for fuel. That need requires the panda to spend nearly all its waking hours finding and consuming bamboo which causes the animals to be ever more lethargic, conserving what little energy they derive from their food in order to find more of it.
A panda was made for more yet it has settled for less. Too often we live as Christians as spiritual pandas who relentlessly consume either spiritual junk food or no spiritual food at all in a fruitless search to fill our time and our souls with something. We are meant to feast on the richest fare and yet we fail to live into the new creation we are in Christ Jesus simply because we fail to take advantage of our new nature.
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