ECWA Food for the Day – 22nd August, 2025

FRIDAY, 22 AUGUST, 2025.
TEXT: JOHN 6:52-59
TOPIC: DIFFICULT TEACHING.

There are times when the content of Christ’s teaching can only be understood by illumination of the Holy Spirit. The audience Jesus, who took His metaphorical teaching as literal drinking of blood, found it scandalous and disgusting (Leviticus 19:36).

They could not understand that eating His flesh and drinking His blood are metaphors for believing in His substitutionary death and resurrection.

The charge of cannibalism is not new. During the time of Nero, who persecuted Christians, the early church was accused of practicing cannibalism because the disciples spoke of elements during Holy Communion as the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. They did not understand that it was a symbolic representation.

Even today, non-Christians who cannot withstand the Bible because they are spiritually bereft blame Christians for many things, such as worshipping three God’s and making Jesus God.

Paul tells us that “the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God” (2 Corinthians 4:4).

QUESTION
Are there gray areas in the Christian beliefs that you are yet to understand?

PRAYER
Open the eyes of my heart, Lord, I want to see You, in Jesus’ name. Amen!