Superfood

I hear that blueberries are a "superfood" because they are rich in this and that and have few negatives. My dad grew them in the front yard. I know the birds really liked them. I was always partial to blackberries. You had to watch out for rattlesnakes when you picked them. But, I guess the risk was worth having a superfood. Jesus said, "For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink." (John 6:55)  Searching for the right food for our diets is a big deal today. Have you seen the magazine covers recently while standing in the grocery line trying to check out with your Twinkies (oh yeah, you can't get that superfood anymore)? The guilt is overwhelming. All these "true" food articles and the bodies they are producing are staring you in the face. This is very distracting when you have a cart full of "less than superfood." The folks to whom Jesus was talking had had a very nice meal of bread and fish (pretty sure both are superfoods). Then, Jesus reminds them about "manna" which I assume was a superfood since it was pretty much their entire diet for 40 years (with a little quail thrown in once). But Jesus is not satisfied with bread, fish, and manna. He starts talking about "true food and true drink."

For something to be "true" it as to be absolute, real, without deception or lies, with no hidden agendas (i.e. ingredients), be according to knowledge, and conforming to facts and realities. Truth cannot be relative and still be truth. Something either is or it isn't. If Jesus were a food he would be digestible, nutritious, full of taste and aroma, and without additives and toxins. He is the pure and real deal. By digestible I mean he can be understood and absorbed into our very being. By nutritious I mean he gives strength and life to every part of our being. By being tasty and aromatic, I mean he is pleasing and easy on the senses. By without additives and toxins, I mean there is nothing in Jesus to harm us, He is the SUPERFOOD. Jesus comes into the world and confronts the traditions, the ideas, the philosophies of man, the beliefs, the mental distortions, the lies, the misinformation and ignorance that is being consumed by the world, and his own people and declares that what they are eating is killing them. How often we hear that today! An infomercial proclaims, "Your food is killing you!"

Jesus was no 30 minute infomercial. He was no vitamin salesman. He was no juicer guru. He was no wholefoods grocer. Though He might have something to say about how we are filling up and keeping up His temple, our bodies. No, Jesus was about real food and real drink. He majored in this. Man spends much more time filling his body with food that will not last, and has to be replenished about every eight hours, instead of searching for real food. Jesus said in John 4:32-34 when offered food by his disciples, "I have food to eat that you do not know about. My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work." Perhaps if we actually really got on a steady diet of Jesus we might be able to give true testimony(John 21:24) that He alone is the true superfood.