Eat
When we eat, our bodies break down the food and get from it both energy and materials for building and repairing the body. The process is similar on a symbolic level in the Bible. Food represents the desire for good and the insight that comes from that desire for good – goodness and understanding that come from the Lord. But to put them to use we have to take them in and make them our own – which is spiritual eating.
Isaiah 11:7-9
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The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
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The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.
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They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
