Christ All in All: Christ is our Food

I'm reading a series of sermons by Philip Henry (Matthew Henry the Bible Commentator's father), and thought I would share some quotes as I go along. Using the book "Christ All in All" as a devotional, I'm reading just one sermon a day, but each one is full of rich doctrine!

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"Everything that has life must have food to support that life. It cannot live without food. So it is with our souls. They can no more live without food than our bodies can. Take the food away, and you take the life away."

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"This bread is given by the Son himself. It was His own act and deed to give Himself to be bread for us...And should not we then readily and cheerfully give ourselves to Him—all we are, have, or can do? Can we bestow ourselves better?"

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"This is the excellency of spiritual dainties: that the more a man feeds on them, the more he would have, and yet he has a kind of satisfaction in what he has, such as causes him to say, 'Return unto they rest, O my soul'"

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"It is our duty to eat of this rare bread...If we do not eat of it, we are like to be never the better for it. It will do us no good to hear of it only. We have heard a great deal of Christ, but what will that avail us, except we believe what we hear? It will do us no good to look on it only. Will looking on meat nourish us? No, we must eat if we will be nourished. Will looking on Christ and seeing others feed on Him feed and nourish you? No, though it is the best fare in the world."