Friday July 21, 2023
John 6:54
“Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life.”
Jesus stands in the midst of the race which has been poisoned by sin and cries out: “Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life.”
This is something for you and me to hear, we who feel the virus of sin in soul and in body.
What a world of poisoned desires, thoughts, and imaginations! What a world of open and secret antipathy toward God, of conscious and of unconscious opposition to Him!
My companion in suffering!
We who feel continuously the virus of death in our hearts, we have only one antidote. Jesus says to us: Eat my flesh and drink my blood.
We are to satisfy the hungering and thirsting after righteousness which He Himself has awakened in our hearts with the living bread given to us in the Word and in Holy Communion. The life which we now live we live by faith in the Son of God who loved us and gave Himself for us.
God has many children in our day and age, perhaps more than at any previous time.
But I fear that He has more stunted children now than ever before also—spiritually overstrained, restless, powerless, joyless.
No doubt there are various reasons for this condition; but the main cause is undoubtedly spiritual undernourishment.
All those who unceasingly inhale the pure air of free grace, who live at all times by the life and the death of Christ, who sustain themselves by the bread which waits for them in the Word like fresh manna from heaven will each day experience the power of that antidote which drives out the poison of sin.
The pure and fresh air at the cross of Christ is too penetrating for our old ego; but in this atmosphere our new self grows and we live our lives humbly, quietly, and gratefully.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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