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Lasting Nutrition
Lasting Nutrition
By Greg King
In John chapter 4 we learn the disciples of Jesus had gone into the city of Samaria to find something to eat while Jesus spoke with a woman at Jacob’s well about living water and eternal life. John 4:13-14
When they returned with food, they encouraged the Lord to eat and Jesus replied to them in John 4:32, 34. “…I have meat to eat that ye know not of.” “...My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.”
There is not a person of any age group that does not think about food. The Lord created us with the need to eat in order to survive physically. Yet the Bible indicates that as important as our physical health is our spiritual health is much more important.
In John 6:26-27 people followed Jesus because he fed the multitude but He told them not to labor for the meat that perishes but labor for the meat that endures unto everlasting life. Jesus told Satan in Matthew 4:4that; “man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God”. There are two sides to man. There is the physical side and there is the spiritual side. Both must be fed and the spiritual is more important than the physical for it is the soul that will live thru eternity.
In Matthew 5:6 Jesus proclaims blessings for those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Far too many people are living and suffering from spiritual malnutrition because they have filled their lives with so many insignificant matters that they have no time to feed the only part of them that will live beyond this life. We joke about gluttony sometimes, but God encourages us to be gluttons when it comes to feeding upon His word. There are blessings, wisdom, and strength that comes from those that will delight to read and meditate in the law of the Lord day and night Psalm 1:1-2. In Acts 17:11 Luke says the church at Berea, “…received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so”.
Let us be encouraged to study to receive the spiritual nutrition that we need to live for Jesus Christ daily. II Timothy 2:15
If my spiritual health is more important than my physical health and I feed my physical body daily, then how much should I be feeding my soul?
