Feast on Me

Wrote this in response to my time feasting in John this past month...

Based on John 6:35, 7:38--Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty...Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink...Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

Feast on me: God, you say  “Feast on me.”

But I’ve never been one for chomping greens.

Why have kale and carrot sticks

When I can have some brownie mix

Or really anything for a quick dessert fix?

When I come home from another day

Of putting out fires or trying to save

Some kid from landing in a hospital daze

All I really want to do is laze

On a couch and watch TV till my eyes are glazed.

Who has the time to read that thick Bible?

I’ve got shows and youtube videos.

Silly books and adventure flings

Too busy and bored to give or sing

Praise or time to my supposed King.

But, wait, what is this?

I know I’m full but I’m feeling sick.

I’m stuffed and my middle’s super thick! (literally!)

I’m feasting but it’s all the wrong foods

All the stuff that’s not good for you

The Great Doctor, He came to heal and save

But I keep putting off the face to face

Too lazy, too busy, too unnaturally full

Too comatose to sense and feel the pull.

Awake, my soul, come and feast!

It was never about starving me.

He says: “I am the bread!”

Come drink the blood and eat of the flesh!

Take out the junk and idols you held

Walk away now from the things that withheld

You from experiencing the life to the full

Come now instead to the table of truth

Feast on me, and never go wanting

Drink of me and you’ll always be savoring

Apart from me and you can do nothing.

I offer up the treasures of heaven.

Hear my words, heed my Spirit

And you’ll see that greens are just the ticket

To health, to life, to endless delight

To satisfaction in every spiritual bite

A chocolate (or a Gilmore Girl episode) every now and then is tasty

But see how my Promised land flows with milk and honey

Come feast on me, come and eat your fill

Come and see how I always fulfill.