Did You Eat Today?

by Eddie Parrish

From The Reminder, April 17, 2011

The disciples of Jesus had gone into the city of Samaria to find something to eat, while Jesus conversed with a woman about eternal truths (John 4:8). When they returned with the sustenance and encouraged the Lord to eat, he replied, “I have food to eat that you do not know about...My food is to do the will of Him who sent me…” (4:32,34).

There is not a person of any age that does not daily think about food.  God created us with the need to eat in order to physically survive.  Yet the Bible indicates that, as important as our physical health is, our spiritual health is infinitely more important.

“Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life…” (John 6:27). “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4).

From these facts comes a sobering question: 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?

Jesus pronounced a great blessing upon those who “hunger and thirst for righteousness” (Matt. 5:6).  Far too many Christians are living beneath their privileges and suffering from spiritual malnutrition because they have filled their lives with so many insignificant matters they have no time to feed the only part of them that will live beyond this life.  Tragic, indeed.

Did you feed your soul today?