Thoughts on Consumption

CONSUME

1. to destroy or expend by use; use up.
2. to eat or drink up; devour.
3. to destroy, as by decomposition or burning: Fire consumed the forest.
4. to spend (money, time, etc.) wastefully.
5. to absorb; engross: consumed with curiosity.
6. to undergo destruction; waste away.
7. to use or use up consumer goods.

So I have been thinking that the work Consume is pretty intense. God is a consuming fire and our sin can consume us. The main way I think of consume is in the food sense. You rip open a plastic wrapper in minutes you consume whatever processed food is inside. Consume is all about taking and using without giving anything back except maybe waste. If life is only about consuming is it worth living because honestly if I think about only exsisting to consume it makes me want to cry. So much of what is good in life and worth energy is the things that are not about our needs and fit the economic label of consumerist society. Aren't you glad that we do not consume communion but we partake it. Partake at least connotates that there is an act of sharing and participating. God can definately consume us in that we are at His totally and absolute mercy. There is no way we can consume God because ultimately it is not about swallowing something whole and then forgetting about it. It is about partaking.


CONSUMER

1. One that consumes, especially one that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing.
2. A heterotrophic organism that ingests other organisms or organic matter in a food chain.

As far as I am concerned right now I feel defination 1 & 2 are one in the same. I want to be more then a consumer and learn how create not destroy, provide sustinance and not just eat, to save and not just spend, to emit and not just absorb, to give and not just get.