Eat Your Work

 Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. John 4:34   For which also I labor, struggling according to His operation which operates in me in power. Colossians 1:29

As a Christian, I am well aware that I must eat the Lord through the Word and prayer every day. Christ is my food, drink, air, and all that I need for my daily living. This aspect of eating and enjoying Christ has been well been taught to me ever since I came into the church life. In fact, these are very basic yet inevitable. All Christians need to be taught and brought into these fundamental experiences in their Christian lives, otherwise, their Christian life will only be a mere religion.

Now, the Lord has also led me to another higher level of eating Him! As Jesus Himself declared, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. Here,  the Lord's food is to do the will of the Father and finish the Father's work. What does this mean? Am I supposed to eat or work? Well, I simply must eat, and the result of eating will be the work, and the work based on the eating will simply be another kind of eating. So eat, work, and work, eat!

My initial days of salvation was full of eating the Lord. I remember spending hours and hours daily for my spiritual eating. Those eating made me grow and grow. And it was by those eating that I am what I am today now. As I ate and ate, and I still do daily, maintaining sufficient time for eating spiritual food, there has been a wonderful manifestation of the issue of my eating; serving the Lord! 

The Lord has been gracing me to serve Him all these years in whatever way He has been leading me. Yet in all my service, one key point that stands out is; eating. This sounds paradoxical, mysterious, yet very very true. I eat the Lord and I serve the Lord. My serving the Lord is by eating the Lord. Therefore, the work that I do is actually my food.

From 2006 until March 2020 when the pandemic struck the world and travel restriction with strict social distancing imposed, my ministry literature journey has been paused for a while. I can truly testify that though I traveled the length and breadth of this country, covering all the states and important cities for the past more than one and a half-decade, I had been enjoying the Lord! Outwardly I labored, carrying books, traveling all kinds of terrains, of altering altitudes, of varying temperatures, of cross-culture, multilingual communities, etc., not once I felt I was physically laboring. Though there was physical labor too, the presence of the Lord in all those literature trip far surpassed the little hardship I went through, so much so that the physical labor is merely a drop in an ocean. It was real feasting.

Time and again I have testified to my coordinators that my travel for the ministry has always been a "vacation." Not in a worldly sense of sinful pleasure, but in the sense of resting in the presence of the Lord, and eating my works. The ministry is my food as the Lord said, My food is to do the will of My Father and finish His works. So my food is also to do the will of my Father and finish His works He assigns to me now and then.

What a blessing to learn this lesson! Eat your works as food! Yet all these laborings are by the strength the Lord provided through eating Him. Though I may labor outwardly, it is He who operates in me in power to accomplish His works. And that work is my food! 

Lord, cause me daily to eat my work!