In my home we Celebrate the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. We partake in communion as a family on Sunday evening along with washing one another’s feet (a very humbling experience for me).

Another thing we do is consume Matzos at every meal since we are use only unleavened bread during that week. Before we eat our dinner on the first night my husband reminds us that as we eat the Matzos we should make ourselves aware of the fact that it symbolizes “Consuming the Life Or Christ”.  The first time he said that I wrote it down because I knew it would be a great topic to write about.

I listen to people day in and day out who say they love the Lord and I wonder do they truly consume the life of Christ. After all His coming was about more than His birth and His resurrection. If you really pay attention to what He said and did, it was about His life.

What about His life must we consume?

“Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus, To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God; But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men; And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.”
Phil 2:5-8 (BBE)

“Truly I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do, and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my Father.”
John 14:12 (BBE)

So the Promise of the Messiah was about more than eternal life. It was about showing us how to be all that God has called us to be to His honor and Glory. Just a Christ was Consumed with His Father by consuming His life we too become consume with Abba. And then Abba can do His perfect work through His children, just as He did through our Elder Brother.

What does it mean to you to be Consuming the Life of Christ?
Are you Consuming the Life of Christ?