Gem #37 - Christ Our Food

Without bread, I become thin like a skeleton; and, at last, I die. Without

thought, my mind becomes dwarfed, yes, and it deteriorates until I become

the idiot, with a soul that just has life, but little more. And without

Christ, my newborn spirit must become a vague, shadowy emptiness. It

cannot live unless it feeds on that heavenly manna which came down from

heaven. Now the Christian can say, "The life that I live is Christ;"

because Christ is the food on which he feeds, and the sustenance of his

newborn spirit.