Feed Your Soul~

TGIF Greetings; May you all be violently overtaken with a spirit of joy!!!!!

We will go through all kinds of stuff to satisfy our desire for food. There’s an ice cream parlor inDavie called Jaxson’s, and my family and I once waited over two hours for a seat.

When I was preggers with Hormone, I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night with an intense desire to eat grape jelly and cream cheese on a bagel. Groggy Jorge stumbled out to get it, but that’s not even a gross craving compared to one I heard of: Banana sandwiches with mayonnaise and onions.

Food is yummy, it nourishes the body, and can even put you in a good mood. Chocolate anyone?

And haven't we have all said, “I’m starving!” Our gullets rumble or we feel faint, and we know it’s time to fuel our bodies. Let’s face it: If we stop eating altogether, we will, you know, expire.

As critical to life as eating is, the Lord reminds us in Matthew 4:4 “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."

Another version says it like this: “It takes more than bread to stay alive. It takes a steady stream of words from God’s mouth.”

In other words, when God says in 1 Peter 2:2 to “desire God’s pure word as babies desire milk,” He is essentially saying that to stay alive we must feed our body AND soul, and we must be as enthusiastic about eating up His truths from the Bible as we are about eating up a hot fudge sundae with two scoops of chocolate chip mint ice cream, sprinkled with butterfingers and whipped cream on top.

The questions are why and how?

Let’s chew on this over the weekend.

PRAYER: Dear Lord, We all have a favorite food, and we are grateful for the blessings of being able enjoy several good meals a day. We also desire the beauty, peace, protection, hope, faith, wisdom, and guidance in our lives that comes from living on Your Word. But please give us a hunger for You that we might grow even bigger and stronger in our faith. In Jesus’ name, AMEN~

Be a Baby~

Greetings, dear people ~

 

1 Peter 2:1-3 So get rid of every kind of evil, every kind of deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander. Desire God’s pure word as newborn babies desire milk. Then you will grow in your salvation. Certainly you have tasted that the Lord is good!

Yesterday we learned that because we have tasted that the Lord is good, we should feel a longing and a desire for more of Him. And the Lord compares that desire to that of a newborn who desires milk.

One of my favorite TV shows is Too Cute! Puppies, and watching those little doggies wobbling over to momma for milk is just beyond precious. Those itty bitty canines are so eager for nourishment, and they will crawl and claw their way to the source.

But newborn human babies are even more adorable and will instinctively shake their little faces as they are nuzzled up against their mom until they find the "spigot" so to speak. And every couple of hours this scenario has to be repeated, or everyone within a two-block radius will know baby is hungry.

God wants us to be just as eager in our desire for Him; He wants us to nourish our souls daily and sometimes more than once.

 

Ironically, our tendencies are just the opposite. Often times when we get our fill of Him, when we get our answer to prayer, when everything is running smoothly, when the weather is nice outside, when there's money in the bank, when our kids have triumphed over their latest challenge...we pull back on our church attendance, our Bible reading, and GASP! even our prayers.

PRAYERS: Dear Lord, We do desire You. Help us be as enthusiastic about You as You are about us. In Jesus' name, AMEN~