Have You Bitten Off More Than You Can Chew?

Now, that's quite a concept, isn't it? This idiom best describes the overloading of oneself to the point beyond what can possibly be managed. While organization of our personal life can have a lot to do with our ability to manage more than we could before, there is a point of overload that is not acceptable for our daily lives. Sometimes, we find ourselves in a place temporarily that cannot be helped,due to external factors beyond our control,but we cannot and must not live in such a state as this. Our daily spiritual life must not be ignored or marginalized to the point of quick snatches and grabs, here and there. We must eat each day and allow the spiritual food to process throughout our being. We see Jesus teaching of the importance of allowing his life to be absorbed into our life in the gospel of John, chapter 6:
⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. ⁵⁰⁵¹ I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.” This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
⁵² The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?”
⁵³ Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵ For My flesh is food indeed,^[h]56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.” and My blood is drink indeed.


We understand from the first chapter of John that the "word became flesh and dwelt among us", therefore this word must be absorbed and understood, and only time can accomplish this goal. Our prayer for today must be: Lord, please help me to not forget your word today, teach me how to organize my day to allow for meditation and study of you, dining and chewing my spiritual food in bites that I can chew, Amen.