Eat to live or live to eat? We can eat to our salvation or damnation. At the beginning of the human race, eating led us into sin, separation from God, and judgment; in the end, we are promised that we shall eat from the tree of life in the presence of God who will eat with us. It is not, in other words, merely a matter that we eat, but what we eat. To live physically we must have bread (food) lest we die of malnutrition, but to live spiritually we must have the Bread of Life, which is Jesus, the Son of God, who gives himself to the world as spiritual food.
