Live to Eat

Do we live to eat or eat to live?

Once, my friend fired a question. It made me tongue tight but now only I realized how simple the answer should be.

There's only one of a kind in this universe which eat to live. Pig, to name. They eat so that they live, when their owners find them had eaten enough, they would be sold and slaughtered where their lives ended.

Well, we should live to eat. 'Eat' alone, gives many definition or at once flood your mind with all kinds of delicious food. If you google it, you will find there are hundreds of description for food or precisely for the taste when you put it in your mouth. Asians are more to rice, so the people in China have five names for rice. (稻、黍、稷、麦、菽) Europeans crave for meat, so they have chicken, mutton, beef, pork......, sometimes they called them steak or loaf and for fish, they are seafood.

But Lord Jesus Christ gives a very important definition for 'eat'. If we looked up at John Chapter 4, after He talked to a Samaritan woman and His disciples came back and brought somefood for Him. He told His disciples,

"I have food to eat that you do not know about." ³³So the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?" ³⁴Jesus said to them,"My food is to do the will of him who sent me."

We live to eat as we live to do the work of God.

So, we must draw out some necessary principles in our lives, so that we feel that we live our lives to the fullest. For example, "always be punctual", "never look down on people", "always be humble" and so on. So that we live a life of God as people see testimony in us. And the harvest,
Lord Jesus Christ had said...

Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. ³⁶Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.