We should no more think of laying in spiritual food to last for ten
years than we should bodily food. A good many people are living on
stale manna. A man in Ireland said to his boy, "I want you to eat two
breakfasts. Do you know why?" The boy said he understood one was for
his body and the other for his soul. All Christians should similarly
take two breakfasts, for the soul and for the body.
The Passover was to be to the Jews the beginning of months. "This
month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first
month of the year to you" (Exodus xii. 2). All the 400 years that they
had been in bondage went for naught, because this was the first month
of the year to them. And in like manner throughout all the years that
we have served the devil, and all the time that we have been in Egypt,
whatever good we may have done in this world is to be reckoned as
naught. Everything dates back to the Passover night--to the time the
blood was put upon the door-posts. All the time we are serving the
world goes for naught. If you have not come to Calvary you are losing
time. Everything you do on the wrong side of the cross counts for
naught; the first thing is to be saved by faith in Christ, and then we
commence our pilgrimage to heaven. We don't start, as some people
suppose, from the cradle to heaven. We start from the cross. We have
got a fallen nature that is taking us hellward. We must be born of the
Spirit, and