The food we eat was living once, and died so we can live. But then it comes back to life in us!
Leviticus 6:14-18 focuses on those grain offerings from which the priests could eat a portion; verses 19-23 describe the grain offerings that were all for God. We earlier quoted the words of our Lord, “The bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world” (Jn 6:33). Clearly Christ was bread from God, sent from heaven, manna-like, not just to sustain life but to actually give life to those who were spiritually dead. But before that, was the Son actually bread for God? Does God need bread? This was discussed when we talked about the showbread, but God is underlining it again. What is the bread of God in the Old Testament? Here is a helpful clue: “Ye have brought into My sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it,…when ye offer My bread, the fat and the blood” (Ezek 44:7, KJV). Ah, yes, the fat and the blood were always given to God, and He received it on the offerer’s behalf. Those strangers, by the way, like most of us, were sinners of the Gentiles. We’ll find the idea of the bread of God five times in Leviticus 21, when discussing this high honor for priests: “he offers the bread of your God” (v 8). This was the shocker in John 6, when Jesus said, “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life” (vv 53-54). What could this mean? God, completely satisfied with His Son, now offers the world what the Jews could never receive: His “bread.” I’m sure you get the idea. Just as we take in bread by mouth (once-living grain that died so we can live by it), so we should receive Christ by faith. He satisfies God; He’s the only One who can satisfy you.