This morning when I woke up this scripture came to mind. "Man shall not live on bread alone.." As I lay there thinking on this I realised that this is what I was to share with you today....
In general we are so consumed with what we are going to eat every single day. We plan what we will eat and what time we will eat it. We eat according to our preferred tastes or our chosen diet. We work for it, shop for it and take care to store it properly. If we're not going to be home to eat it, we pack it and take it with us. We celebrate with it and we freely give to those who don't have it.
We know we need food and drink to survive and that without it we would not function well!
And just like we need natural food and drink to live, we also need our spiritual food to live! And we need to consider it with the same mindset we have about our natural food. In fact when we really consider the importance of spiritual food, we actually need it more than our natural food! Why? Because our spirit is the part of us that lives forever; way beyond the years we walk around on planet earth!
Is there something missing in your life that can't be filled with food and drink? Are you busy but not fulfilled? Have you tried different ways to fill that hole but still come out wanting? This could very well be because your spirit is hungry! As the scripture shows us in Matthew 4:4 "Man does not LIVE on bread alone"..... we may function, we may survive... but we don't really LIVE until we know God and feed ourselves on His word. This is the 'bread' that satisfies our spiritual being. It fills the part of us that nothing else can fill. It is the source of our peace and our purpose. It is our assurance of eternal life with the One who created us.
So how can we feed our spirit? Just like natural food there is a smorgasbaord of ways we can feed on the word of God. It can be as simple as reading the Bible (aka Gods word) or doing a bible study. It can be through a daily devotion, a group study or by going to church. It can be in the privacy of your own home, on TV, online, or out with a group of people. It can take a couple of minutes or a couple of hours. The main point is to get the precious life giving word of God into you! It won't be long before you feel the difference! It won't be long until you feel that hole filling up. It won't be long before you find yourself LIVING in ways you were not before.
We are what we eat yes? Well this applies to us spiritually too!
Be blessed, Jenspen
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