Andy Rooney once pointed out that the two biggest sellers in bookstores are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to make food irresistibly delicious, and the diet books tell you how to avoid eating it. Orson Wells once said, "My doctor has advised me to give up those intimate little dinners for four, unless of course there are three other people eating with me."

At a Weight Watchers meeting just after Easter, one woman said with pride, "This is the first year my children realized that chocolate Eastern bunnies came with ears." Eating is one of those areas of experience in which most of us feel qualified to claim expertise.

A scientist in California once computed that the average American eats sixteen times his weight in a year. A horse, on the other hand, only eats eight times his weight. Which means what? That if you eat like a horse, you're probably not overeating, and you shouldn't be overweight. It's eating like two horses that gets us into so much trouble.

Eating is fundamental to life. It's something all people in every age have taken seriously. And I believe that one reason Jesus used the image of bread to describe Who He was is because Jesus wants us to take Him as seriously as we do the other fundamental necessities of life.