Jeremiah 15:16 [Your words were found and I ate them, and Your word became to me the gladness and joy of my heart, for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.]
John 6:57 [As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.]
We need to eat Jesus by calling on the name of the Lord. But after we eat, we also need a good digestion. We do not want to have indigestion. Indigestion first causes stomach trouble, and then it may cause a stomach ulcer. When we eat Christ, we also need to spiritually digest Him in a proper way.
The Lord Jesus is real, living, and practical. When you call "Lord Jesus", He gets into you and fills you up. While you are calling "Lord Jesus", this practical and living Jesus will touch your natural being. But many of you would say, "No, Lord. Don't touch me here. Stay where You are. You are my guest and You must stay in the living room. Don't get into my private bedroom. That's for me, not for You." This means "indigestion". There is no way for the Lord as the spiritual food to get through in you. There is no free course for the food to get into your inward parts, so you have indigestion.
But when you respond to and go along with the inner sense, your appetite for the Lord Jesus comes back and your spiritual digestion becomes proper. Then the riches of the Lord Jesus become your cells, and these cells grow into your organic tissues. This causes you to grow in the divine life and makes you strong in the Lord. It is easy for you to stand and not easy for you to backslide, because you are growing in the Lord. It is hard for the grown-up ones to fall down. This is because they have a good digestion to assimilate all the nourishment from the spiritual food they eat.
Reference: The Living and Practical Way to Enjoy Christ; How to Enjoy God and How to Practice the Enjoyment of God.
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