# “Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls” by John Owen

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- Published: 2007-09-15T01:53:14-05:00
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“Be not contented to have right _notions_ of the love of Christ in your minds, unless
you can attain a gracious _taste_ of it in your hearts; no more than you would be
to see a feast or banquet richly prepared, and partake of nothing of it unto your
refreshment. It is of that nature that we may have a spiritual sensation of it in
our minds; whence it is compared by the spouse to apples and flagons of wine (See
Canticles 2:2-4).

We may taste that the Lord is gracious; and if we find not a relish of it in our
hearts, we shall not long retain the notion of it in our minds. Christ is the meat,
the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in Him of a higher spiritual nourishment
than His love, which we should always desire. In this love is He _glorious_.”

-–John Owen, “Meditations and Discourses Concerning the Glory of Christ” in _The
Works of John Owen_, ed. William Goold, (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1965), Vol.
I: p. 338.

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