Don’t Leave Jesus Behind.

Oct 14, 2011 by desiringvirtue

An excerpt from Spurgeon’s sermon: Meat Indeed and Drink Indeed

“For my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed” (John 6:55)

“The body could not be kept in vigor ordinarily, or without a miracle, except by the use of food. We pine, we languish, we sicken, we die without bread. So the soul without Jesus, supposing it to be alive, must soon sicken, pine, be famished, and decay.

You, O believer, with all your strength, would be weak as water at this moment if Jesus weren’t now your present support. All your past experience would go for nothing if you had not now a present Christ to stay your hopes upon. It would be only a matter of time with you; you would ere long sink into corruption of an open apostasy.

Like a man shut up in a dungeon and deprived of food, who drags out for a few days a most painful existence, with you. Unless Jesus Christ be your daily meat you will go back to the carnal elements of the world, and become corrupt and depraved as others are.

Christ is the only true sustenance of the quickened soul.

But, mark you, let a man eat what meat he may, it does not always so sustain him but that he is sometimes weak and stretched upon the bed of languishing; and it cannot so sustain him but that ere long he must be carried to his grave: but if your souls learn to feed on Jesus, they shall enjoy the blessed immunity promised to the inhabitants of Zion; they shall not say, ‘I am sick;’ they shall never die; they shall feed on immortal bread such as angels eat. You shall be carried up to the seats of the immortals to dwell forever with the Christ upon whom you have fed, coming to him first to appease your hunger, and believing on him continually to sustain your life.”

Jesus was is not only your salvation, he is your preservation! Remember today to seek him, to love him, to follow him, to be conformed to him, to abide in him that you may enjoy the fullness of your salvation.