the circles of christians i move in often use the phrase 'being fed on the word', by which they mean something like 'that was a satisfying amount of teaching from the scriptures'. and yet, food is fuel for the body, but as you should realise, energy the body doesn't use turns to fat. sometimes i wonder about those who are feeding well on the word, if they have not become connoisseurs of taking in biblical teaching, culinary gluttons of exegesis, devourers of tasty morsels, and ultimately they are not feeding on the word, but getting fat on it.