Have You Fed Your Soul Today?

If you're reading this posting, you probably have fed your soul today. You have, most likely, gone to church or are planning on going to church. I pray that the church you attend feeds you well, with the word of God. I pray that you enjoy a feast that will nourish and energize your spirit, keeping it vibrant and vital, challenging you and causing you to grow in your knowledge and awareness of Christ and His saving, sanctifying presence in your life. 

It's important to nourish our souls, feed them a healthy diet to help them to strengthen and grow. It's important, and far too easy to neglect, far too easy to relegate to the bottom of our to-do list, far too easy to "get a shot" on Sunday morning and think we're doing OK in that area of our lives. It's far too easy to feed our bodies and starve our souls. 

We live in a culture that places a heavy emphasis on health. Those who exercise know the value of regular work outs.

Those who don't, know they should. Nutrition is  a hot topic, even among those that struggle to maintain healthy diets. 

Most of us feed our bodies something a number of times a day. The evidence of how we eat and what we eat is put on display in how we look, in how our clothes fit and how we interact with our environment. 

But, being human beings, we are more than just our bodies. We are body and spirit. There is a non-physical element to our being, one we can't readily see, but one that makes us who we are, makes us human. Our bodies are vital to our existence, our spirits are too (James 2:26).  Both need to be cared for and fed.

Yet a lot of folks believe things are different when it comes to nourishing our souls. Many would like to think our spirits

reflect our good intentions rather than what we feed them. Many believe their spiritual food, in very small, infrequent doses, can sustain them. Many think they can have a healthy spirit that's feeds only on junk food or no food at all. Many think their spirits will flourish on anything but the food their creator has given them to feed their souls, the Bible. 

If you are one who struggles in this area and find it hard to open your Bible on a daily basis, try this, just for the fun of it. Eat physical food only on the days you read your Bible. Have a meal only on the days when you immerse yourself in the word of God. Feed your body the same way you feed your spirit. Try this for a month or two or three...then go look in the mirror. 

That's what your spirit looks like.

See? The evidence of what we feed our spirit is put on

display just the same as the evidence of what we feed our

bodies is put on display. It's a little harder to see but it

shows up in our hearts and in how we live our lives. If we starve our bodies, we become emaciated and weak. We get the same result if we starve our spirits. We need sustenance in order for our bodies to be healthy. It's the same thing for our spirits. If we neglect to nourish our spirits, they become weak, leaving us with no motivation in life other than what our bodies crave.

We all know where that leads. 

We begin to struggle. We loose our spiritual strength and the capability to control our flesh. Our bodies begin to dictate what we do and how we do it. We become the embodiment of Paul's struggle in Romans 7...  

Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

Feed your body...but feed your spirit too...daily and well....strengthen it, nourish it, grow it, make it healthy. 

Jer 15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

Psalm 119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

May you dine on sweetness for your soul today.