For things to live, they must consume food.
To a tree, that means drawing water and nutrients from the soil so that sunlight can convert them into food in the leaves. Remove the water and nutrients, and the tree dies.
Some living creatures draw their nourishment directly from other living things in their ecosphere. We call them parasites. Separate them, and the parasite dies.
Humans and other mammals, as well as birds and other creatures...what about them? Where do they get their food in order to live?
The local Piggly Wiggly is certainly a valid choice, but at a more primal level, it comes from the plants and animals all around us. Remove those from our reach, and we will eventually die.
If we eat the wrong foods, we will achieve the same result. We will eventually die, becoming no more than a food source for yet other creatures, including the bacteria that turns our bodies back into the dust of the earth.
We have to make good choices. Yet, what about feeding our spiritual man? How does all that work?
Let’s look at three steps in the process, all of which lead to an inescapable fact: If we don’t watch out, we will become a food source for yet another hungry creature.
Step 1: God makes us.
Genesis 2:7 is the beginning of Man’s story. This is where life sprang into being; where we made the transition from inanimate matter into living flesh; where the “magic” happened.
“Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”
From Genesis 2:7 on, Man walks and talks.
Step 2: Man makes a choice.
1 John 1:9 tells us the core process of our decision to live or die in the spiritual realm. This is where life springs into being; where we make the transition from death to life; where the spiritual man begins to walk with God.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
While the Word tells us all manner of ways we can tweak our Christian walk to improve our relationship with him, from this point, we are alive in Jesus.
Step 3: The devil makes a meal of us.
Ezekiel 18:4, 20 and Romans 6:23 show how making the incorrect choice feeds the Soul Eater. After all, a parasite has to have a food source, also. It cannot make its own food. The only way it can live is to draw its nourishment directly from others in its environment.
If we choose to inhabit the devil’s environment, he will use us for a food source.
“The soul who sins shall die…and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.”
“Behold, all souls are mine; …the soul who sins shall die.”
“For the wages of sin is death…”
We have a solution. We don’t have to be a food source for the devil. We do not have to feed him our souls.
Matthew 10:28 tells us we should “…fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell,” not chum up with him on Saturday night. The devil shouldn’t be our friend.
Rather, we should do as Colossians 3:5 and Galatians 5:16 tell us. If we want to live, it is imperative to “put to death therefore what is earthly in you…” and “…walk by the Spirit…” so that we might not become part of the devil’s daily smorgasbord.
God gives us life. Let’s not offer it freely to the devil.
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