Not by bread alone

[Guest]

I cannot live without reading something in my Bible to begin each day. More of course as i can as the day progresses, then end the day with a little more. 

Our bodies must be fed daily to survive. Or we die. 

But our soul is actually even more important. It's food is the Word of God. Otherwise it shrivels surely? A starving soul impacts on our entire life now and for eternity. If only so many would realise their emaciated state and know this in time. 

I am only really happy when praying or reading my Bible. Nothing else comes close. Yes we have to live in this world, do all that we must each day. But my strength is from God alone. 

 

[R. Hartono]

Amen.

[Debp]

That's beautiful, Melinda.

[Jubilea]

5 hours ago, Melinda12 said:

Our bodies must be fed daily to survive. Or we die. 

But our soul is actually even more important. It's food is the Word of God.

Amen, Sister. The LORD has been bringing this verse to me a lot lately. I eat most of my meals alone and I have considered starting a habit of reading God's Word while I eat- nurishing body and soul together.

[Guest]

19 minutes ago, Jubilea said:

Amen, Sister. The LORD has been bringing this verse to me a lot lately. I eat most of my meals alone and I have considered starting a habit of reading God's Word while I eat- nurishing body and soul together.

I do exactly that! Read the Bible on my kindle while i eat my sandwich at lunch. Body and soul being fed. 

[Neighbor]

Thanks for getting me to thinking on this-

And yet there is evidently value enough in fasting from food that it is encouraged for sake of both body and spirit. 

One small example: 

... Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.  For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.”  So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty....

 

[Neighbor]

I need not eat food for the belly daily. I suspect at this time I can survive off the "fat of the land" for some goodly amount of time. 

-Death of my body for lack of a meal for a day will not be much of a threat. 

[Neighbor]

It does seem that spiritual nourishment (The word) maintains a physical body.

And for what purpose? Is it to be fed or to be strengthened to enter and be at the fields working toward the harvest? Am I to be consumer or am I to be a laborer? Is consumption the goal or is something else the goal?

..."Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”  But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”  So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”  Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.  Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.  Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.  For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’  I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”  So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.  And many more believed because of his word.  They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”

After the two days he departed for Galilee. (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)  So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast."

 

[turtletwo]