Why did God limit food for the Israelites (manna and quail) while they were in the wilderness? Because this was a time of testing. Nothing tests us quite like a restriction on our dietary intake. Take fasting, as the perfect example. When we fast for the Lord, we go through many phases, and depending on the length of the fast, we will go in and out of these phases. I’m sure there are others you could think of to add…
Earlier today, I hit the ‘publish’ button for my new book, Food for the Table: Christ Our Real Food (A Book of Blogs). Yep, I’ve compiled a book of some of the best from Drawing From the Well. The readings date from 2014 to 2022. They have been edited and amended to read well in a book format for people unfamiliar with my blog (that makes most of the world! lol). Therefore, after scrolling through this site, you will find…
This post has been re-titled and transferred to my book, Food for the Table: Christ our Real Food. The book will be released mid to late January 2023, and you will find the links to purchase on ‘My Books’ page. Food for the Table: Christ our Real Food is a collection of some of the best posts from Drawing From the Well, spanning from 2014 to end 2022. The idea behind it is to provide the reader with some…
For a long time, I had begun to see my Lord Jesus in images of water – as a rushing river, speeding over all the river stones, teaming with life, sometimes carrying me along in the roaring flow – deep, cool, green and frothing with clear whitewash. I had also begun to see Him as a deep unfathomable ocean – vast, majestic, all-powerful and beyond me altogether. Likewise, I had seen the Lord as the cool springs, trickling along in…
“Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.…” (Hebrews 12:1-2). This…
Jesus said He is our real food and real drink (John 6:25-59) I don’t mean this to sound sacreligious – please bear with me ……. The other day as I was eating my muesli for breakfast, I saw Jesus in my muesli. No, I don’t mean that the seeds formed a shape of Jesus! I saw with spiritual eyes that Jesus is my ‘roughage’, He’s the one that fills my life to rid me of all the junk that resides…