Food for Thought?!

What are we living for? If we are living to work so that we can have food to eat and earn our living, then we are totally missing the point for which Jesus came for. Life is far worth than just satisfying our apetities for food and material goods. We do not live so that we can eat nor do we eat so that we can live. Life is not meant to be lived as though we are consuming entities but it is meant to be lived in relation with God and people! This was evidenced from the way Jesus answered His tempter in the desert.
Matthew 4:1-4
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

Well, here is more food for thought. Jesus when he ministered to the Samaritan woman, said that he would give her living water so that she would never thrist again. This is because Jesus realised that her hunger was far more than for food or drink. There is an interesting lesson that we can learn from the exchange between Jesus and his disciples when the disciples got back from buying some food while Jesus was talking to the Samaritan woman. Here is a snippet:
John 4:27,31-34
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?" ... Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something." But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?" "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
Here Jesus is saying that a fulfilled life can only be lived if the focus is to do will God's will rather than pandering to the apetite of the flesh.

What are you pursuing? If you are pursuing the temporal material things, you will never be satisfied. Jesus asks us to pursue Him if we want complete fulfillment.
John 6:35
Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty."
Food is a metaphor not just for nourishment but for real eternal fellowship. The invitation to join Jesus in an eternal relationship is given to you. Will you seek eternal spiritual food or settle only for the temporal?
Revelation 3:20
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.