Feed your soul

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”

Our Bible verse for today: “He answered, ‘Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Feed your soul”

Yesterday we ended with the thought that we need to live like we’re headed for heaven. That’s true. Now that we are nearing the end of our study of salvation past, present, and future, I want to shift our attention back to the topic of salvation present and how we are to live while we’re moving through this life towards the consummation of our salvation in eternity. As we have learned, how well you prepare yourself now will determine what eternity will be like for you later.

In Matthew 4:4 Jesus referred to a great truth about living the Christian life. There, as He was responding to the temptations posed by Satan while He was in the wilderness, Jesus said that even more than He needed physical food to sustain His body He needed spiritual nourishment for His soul. He made a similar statement in John 4:32;34 when he told them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about … My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.”

This reminded me of a great insight shared by the famous Christian philosopher Dallas Willard. Dallas was one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the last generation. Much of his ministry was focused on helping Christians develop a deeper practice of the Christian faith and to thereby grow much deeper in spiritual maturity. He spent his entire life preparing himself for the eternity in heaven that he is now enjoying, and he helped others to prepare themselves as well. Here’s what he had to share about caring for your soul and growing spiritually:

“What’s running your life at any given moment is not your external circumstances, not your thoughts, not your intentions, not even your feelings, it’s your soul. The soul is that aspect of your whole being that correlates, integrates, and enlivens anything going on in the various dimensions of the self. You don’t direct your soul you feed it, then the soul directs you.”

“You don’t direct your soul you feed it, then your soul directs you.” What a critical understanding that is! The most important thing you can do to live well now, grow spiritually, and to prepare yourself for eternity is to feed your soul every day. Feed it well. Feed it on the Word of God, on worship, on acts of service, and on fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ.

I encourage you to feed your soul and to feed it well, today and every day.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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