Why Are You Hungry?

More and more I am learning, in vivid clear colour that we are the ones disadvantaging ourselves in many respects, but this one is most interesting.

Look at how the Lord showed me a well-documented and unarguable fact, by using 1 Corinthians 9: 13. Don’t you know that those who work in the temple get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar, share in what is offered on the altar?

For the moment, we are only concerned with this one fact. Before you, are two kinds of workers. There are:-

(a) The Temple Workers

(b) The Altar Servers.

It is precisely because the temple workers work in the temple, that they are able to get food from the temple. Also, those who serve at the altar share in what is offered at the altar. This was a little disconcerting, because it left me no choice but to answer some tough questions about myself. Take the temple, for example, there are various levels and degrees of workers. One may be the janitor, the door opener, or the priest himself. Here is the question. Is it any different in the Lord’s House from, say Chefette, or Kentucky for that matter? Chefette workers are floor managers, servers, cleaners, cashiers, chefs and the list goes on. Yet they all eat from the food there. They have a choice, not to eat there, but the point is that they all get their food at that eating place where they work.

God has His own Temple Workers and Altar Servers in His Place of Food and we all have access to the Food. Be honest then with yourself. Food is not the problem. Feeding is not the problem. The one problem of the worker is whether, as a worker, you choose to eat the food or not.

This gets even more revealing, as it pins you down to the point. Like at Wendy’s, or McDonald’s, the worker can eat free of cost, as long as he or she is a worker, on the job. It is Jesus who is saying most clearly that we are His, on the job, workers and servers, entitled to FEED, for there is FOOD available to you. If you are barred from eating, then you are barred from working and serving. Look at the times when Jesus fed the multitudes, do you think His disciples were excluded? Yes, they were told to serve the people, but do you for one moment think that they did not feed in that communal food also?

Christ’s one word to us today, is that the problem of hunger is not for the servants working and serving in His temple. Says Jesus,

Do you serve at My altar? Then Share in My offering.

Do you work in My temple? Then Feed on My Food.

Lord, whether worker or server, make me not be side-tracked with all the deceiving lies that leave me hungry, while turning that mirror away from me and giving all kinds of satisfying excuses. Lord, make me to feed as long I am allowed to serve You. Amen!