The Food of the Lord

“And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Speak to Aaron, saying: “No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God. For any man who has a defect shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb too long, a man who has a broken foot or broken hand.”’” . It is a very great grace and a great responsibility to be able to approach to bring forth God’s food in God’s house. Moses was clearly instructed that such ones had to be pure, without blemish and other things that hindered.

What about us today? What about me personally? Do I have this fear in my everyday life? Consider how David thought about the house of the Lord: “I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go into the house of the Lord.’ Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together, where the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to the Testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. . . . Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: ‘May they prosper who love you. . . .’ For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, ‘Peace be within you.’ Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek your good.” .

Consider that we are dealing with God’s chosen people and that we must love them and pray for them and seek the best for them. When the Spirit of God speaks to us, we must be willing to love the truth and cleanse ourselves of everything that hinders us from bringing food into the house. This is vitally important both for us and for the church—that we live in the fear of God, so that we can be preserved in our time.

We need God’s food in order to grow. Our families need God’s food to grow. The church needs food so that everyone can grow to maturity in Christ. God wants to reveal His hidden treasures to us in this time. But it requires that we seek Him earnestly, live in godly fear, and live righteously and are willing to cleanse ourselves of everything that hinders the life of God from working in us.

There is a great difference between God’s servants; this difference comes primarily from what they eat, and whether they live before God’s face in everyday life. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” . When a person lives in need over themselves and in spiritual poverty, then they become able to receive food directly from God and bring it into God’s house.

It takes an open ear to hear what God wants to say first to me, and then to the church and the house of God. It is written several times in Revelation: “He who has an ear, let him hear.” But before that it says: “He who overcomes.” And this is the key to being able to hear and bring food into the house of God. “To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life.” .

Let us be humble and be in need over ourselves, and live before God’s face at the Lord’s throne in our everyday lives.

Victor Claudiu Avram