Yesterday's reading in Our Daily Bread was truly good, timely and just the reminder that I need. Especially during this season when all of us have so much physical food to eat due to celebrations.. This truth has about God's Word being our soul food has always been there. Really, it has always been. Just that, knowing us, we tend to put it aside, forgetting that we need them. It is just one of those things.. Hmm..
Even as I scribble away about this, I am asking God to be gentle with me, with us as I learn, as we learn to be good child, good children of His.. Because He loves me, us so much that He is patient.. He waits for me, us.. I don't know about anyone else but that really touches my heart. God waits relentlessly.. He really does. Isn't that beautiful?
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December 28, 2008
Soul Food
Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. —Jeremiah 15:16
Grocery shopping with my wife, Martie, is like taking a seminar in nutrition. I’ll often pick up a box of something that looks good, and she’ll say: “Look at the label. Are there trans-fats? What’s the calorie count? How about the cholesterol rating?” I have to confess that if she weren’t the nutrition cop in my life, I’d look like Shamu the whale!
More important than making good choices in the grocery store is thinking carefully about the food we digest for our souls. I love the verse that says: “Your words were found, and I ate them” (Jer. 15:16).
When we read God’s Word, we have to be doing more than checking it off our to-do list. We have to read it to digest it. Slow, thoughtful absorption of the Word of God with quiet reflection on its implications is high in nutrition. His Word provides all the ingredients we need to thrive spiritually:
a direct connection to the sustainer of our soul
brain food that makes us wise and discerning
a daily check-up revealing the condition of our hearts
preventive medicine keeping us from sin
a spiritual shower of peace, hope, and comfort
God’s Word provides the nourishment
That Christians need if we’re to grow;
But if we do not feast on it,
A vibrant faith we’ll never know. —Sper
The Bible contains all the nutrients for a healthy soul.
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Funny.. but true.. as the year coming to an end, so much thoughts fly by.. one by one.. lots of thankfulness of heart for me.. I can testify about that this year.. Lots of love, joy, peace.. so much of these wonderful things in me that the uncertainty about the days to come seem not so scary anymore.. it doesn't seem to matter that much anymore because the knowledge and experience of His realness in the present just overwhelms me and warms my heart. I think that is beautiful.. that is lovely.. that is awesome!.. Praise God!.. *wink*
Loving life as it is.. Loving people as they are.. Loving myself as I am.. I do wonder.. and I will continue to dream on.. in His presence.. in His loving arms... :D
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