Feeding on Christ
StJohnsAshfield StainedGlass Simeon (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) "The earnest of our inheritance ." Ephesians 1:14 Oh! what enlightenment, what joys, what consolation, what delight of heart is experienced by that man who has learned to feed on Jesus , and on Jesus alone. Yet the realization which we have of Christ 's preciousness is, in this life, imperfect at the best. As an old writer says, "'Tis but a taste!" We have tasted "that the Lord is gracious," but we do not yet know how good and gracious he is, although what we know of his sweetness makes us long for more. We have enjoyed the firstfruits of the Spirit, and they have set us hungering and thirsting for the fulness of the heavenly vintage. We groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption. Here we are like Israel in the wilderness, who had but one cluster from Eshcol , there we shall be in the vineyard. Here we see the manna falling small, like coriander seed , but