Every morning when I go for breakfast, I will find noodles, bread or rice prepared for breakfast for us in the college cafeteria. I like to eat them and I need them to fill my stomach. But I prefer to have “roti chanai”. It is when I eat “roti canai” I feel I’m satisfied and full. I felt like my need is fulfilled.
Something to think about, each and everyone here tend to have our own favourite…. Hmmm …. Let me put it in this way. Every one of us likes to have certain type of meal which will fulfill our needs and also our taste. Sometimes, when we travel to places far away from home and our culture. We tend to not get the food that we used to eat when we were at home land. I’m now living in my campus and I tend to not get certain food that daily offer to me when I was back at home. I still eat the bread, noodles and rice. Rice is still my main food buy I cant live without eating “roti chanai”. It is because I grew up eating “roti chanai” almost every morning. Some of my friends back at home, they can’t live without eating “nasi lemak”. Some of my friends in this campus tend to eat noodles in every meal. It is because they want their need to be fulfilled. In their country, they tend to eat noodles every day, it explains because they are from noodle eating society. My other European friends, they tend to eat bread every morning and they even complaint about it. They complaint about the bread been offered in the cafeteria. They said that this bread is not exactly the kind of bread they eat in Europe. Even there are differences in bread.
In all these differences, there is one truth and also one reality. It is that we need carbohydrate. The main food that we eat, whether it might be “roti canai”, “nasi lemak”, noodles, or bread. In all these, the main nutrition that we need is carbohydrate. Carbohydrate is there in every main and daily food. Human body needs more of this nutrition called carbohydrate. It doesn’t matter in what form they are. The matter is we need to get the carbohydrate in the way we like and used to it.
All that I want to say is this, If Jesus lives now in our time, the term He would use will be “I AM the Carbohydrate, whoever comes to me will never hunger or thirst, and will receive the Living Carbohydrate.” Yes, my friends, WE NEED JESUS and it doesn’t matter in what form we take him into us. It doesn’t matter whether we eat rice or noodles at the end we are getting carbohydrate from this food. An Asian can’t live without rice, since it is his culture and also life style. European can’t leave or will not feel comfortable to not eat bread everyday. It depends on our culture and context. All we need to do is excavate Christ in us and our context. Let Christ be the Carbohydrate in “roti chanai” for Indians, in “Char Keow Teaw” for Chinese, “Nasi Lemak” for Malay and bread for Europeans.
Remember one think before leave this page. Christ is our Carbohydrate.
BY HIS SPIRIT....
