Provision
The Bible says that before you were born, God saw all of your days, and He has a plan for you that is good. Like any journey, the journey God planned for your life requires provisions...food, water, strength, times of hard work and times of rest.
You would never try to walk a long distance without food, and God has special food for you to walk out His wonderful plan for your life. Jesus Himself ate this same food everyday, and He said it was just as important, even more important, than breakfast, lunch, and dinner:
Matthew 4: 4 But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say, `People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
God has a planned diet of revelation for everyone who has decided to undertake the journey mapped out for them. Each word of God packed for me has exactly what I need day by day to keep moving into the fullness of life God has always intended for me to reach...but this is the problem: I am so tempted to live by what I see, I think the physical food I eat is more important than the spiritual food that is essential.
If you go very long without eating, you will be weak and unable to press ahead, but if you eat what the perfect dietitian has prepared for you, you will actually get stronger as you travel and work your muscles.
A sure sign of sickness and near death is when your lack of healthy eating actually causes you to lose your appetite all together! Many well meaning followers of Jesus have no appetite for the one thing they need for their journey, the very food that Jesus himself needed every day: God's words for them!
I open my lunch box like this: I ask God for the words in His heart for me, that He planned for me to eat today, and then open the Bible and read for a little while. It is easier than making breakfast.
Like any really good food, you may need to develop a taste for it if you haven't eaten in a while...but it is worth it.
Without food, I would eventually die, and I certainly won't accomplish any of the amazing things God has planned for me if I won't take time to eat the same thing Jesus needs to eat!
1 Corinthians 3:1 Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn't talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in the Christian life.2 I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren't ready for anything stronger. And you still aren't ready, 3 for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn't that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren't you living like people of the world?
You would never try to walk a long distance without food, and God has special food for you to walk out His wonderful plan for your life. Jesus Himself ate this same food everyday, and He said it was just as important, even more important, than breakfast, lunch, and dinner:
Matthew 4: 4 But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say, `People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
God has a planned diet of revelation for everyone who has decided to undertake the journey mapped out for them. Each word of God packed for me has exactly what I need day by day to keep moving into the fullness of life God has always intended for me to reach...but this is the problem: I am so tempted to live by what I see, I think the physical food I eat is more important than the spiritual food that is essential.
If you go very long without eating, you will be weak and unable to press ahead, but if you eat what the perfect dietitian has prepared for you, you will actually get stronger as you travel and work your muscles.
A sure sign of sickness and near death is when your lack of healthy eating actually causes you to lose your appetite all together! Many well meaning followers of Jesus have no appetite for the one thing they need for their journey, the very food that Jesus himself needed every day: God's words for them!
I open my lunch box like this: I ask God for the words in His heart for me, that He planned for me to eat today, and then open the Bible and read for a little while. It is easier than making breakfast.
Like any really good food, you may need to develop a taste for it if you haven't eaten in a while...but it is worth it.
Without food, I would eventually die, and I certainly won't accomplish any of the amazing things God has planned for me if I won't take time to eat the same thing Jesus needs to eat!
1 Corinthians 3:1 Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn't talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in the Christian life.2 I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren't ready for anything stronger. And you still aren't ready, 3 for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn't that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren't you living like people of the world?
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