This world simply is NOT what life is all about. This fallen world has been sprayed with chemical sin since Adam and Eve disobeyed our Father in the Garden of Eden. This soil is quite poisonous to our souls.

This world's filthy soil breeds many diseases of the soul including but not limited to contempt, hatred, anxiety, fear, envy, jealousy, coldness, and wanton disregard of others. Many have tried to create and bottle their own solutions to these deficiencies and, in doing so, have quite simply perpetuated the original sin, eaten more of what Eve handed Adam long ago. Eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is an act of rebellion. It is us saying we want to know what is going on so we can fix it our way. It is a way of saying God's knowledge is not sufficient. In this world, God's knowledge appears strangely absent and that is because the soil of sin so saturates us that we think it is normal to have a God who is too busy to care about us.

Thinking, therefore, within the world's confines to try to save ourselves is, quite literally, fruitless. This is because the soil from which everything grows is tainted with rebellion and appearances of truth that are not true at all. Nothing true and lasting can be accomplished in a world where our assumptions are incorrect. Here is one example: When someone causes us to get angry, we assume the anger is justified when, in fact, (because all things work together for good to those who love Christ Jesus) God set it up so that we might learn to love one another. The world believes anger is justified. The Christian who has studied the Bible, knows God's mighty hand is involved in everything and, because of that, anger is not justified at all. Only Jesus Christ's saving grace is justified in this world. Every other world based justification loops endlessly back around to the world's unsound and ultimately non-working solutions.

We take vitamins because our physical soil is depleted. Our spiritual souls are depleted as well. Our souls are depleted of holiness, righteousness and fellowship with God. How can we be restored to spiritual vitality and reconciliation to God?

We need a full dose of Jesus Christ. At the last supper in the Bible, Jesus said, “Take this bread…It is my body” “Take this wine. It is my blood” He quite literally wanted to show us via physical representations that we are to take every bit of Him into our hearts and souls.

Jesus is THE pill we need now. He needs to be swallowed from the heart, swallowed from our souls, swallowed and allowed to be incorporated into the very fibers of our being. We need to let His Holy Spirit bring nourishment, strength and health to our souls. If we are what we eat, in the physical sense, how much more is that true in the spiritual sense?

Jesus does not “represent” our way to eternal life. Jesus IS the way to eternal life. If He just represented the way to eternal life, all He'd have to do is tell us about it and we'd be able to take notes, get a few lessons in church, and we'd be home free. It isn't like that at all. Jesus must be quite literally absorbed into our soul and this is done when we accept Him as our Lord and Savior, focusing only on Him in all situations. That is the free gift of eternal life, the first and most important “vitamin pill” we take.

Jesus wants to help us be triumphant for Him, while we wait for our eternal life after this earthly one. He wants us to continue taking Him as a supplement for the rest of our days. He needs to be completely absorbed into our lives so that it is no longer Tom, Dick and Jane that are walking this planet but Jesus, Jesus, and Jesus. Then we are able to serve Him, operating at our maximum spiritual potential. We must feed upon His Word and His Spirit to achieve godly vim and vigor.

How do we take our vitamin Jesus? We take Him in by meditating upon His Word and taking time to spend with Him in fellowship and deep prayer. We must keep our hearts and minds in a willing frame, through humility and obedience. By doing these things, we increase absorption into our souls, keeping depletion at bay.

In the Last Supper, Jesus set up a ritual that is celebrated in churches all around the world many times a year. He yearns to be fully absorbed into our lives in new and deep ways. He yearns to work His mighty miracles through our bodies and shine His Light through our eyes. He yearns to hear all the world's profane and mean and ugly shouts through our ears as cries of pain and anguish of people who don't know Him, yet need Him desperately. He yearns to see death through our eyes, so that He may bring life (even to the point of raising people back to life like He and Paul did in the early church and, as He promised, through Him even greater things will be done.) He yearns to use our bodies, minds, and souls in ways that require optimum spiritual health.

Remember that old poster of Uncle Sam? In our mind's eye, let's change it to a poster of Jesus and His gentle, open arms. Instead of “I Want You,” make it “Come Unto Me” and let's begin our lives of pure joy now!

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