More Than Food

Here lately, God has been talking to me about just how much I/we need Him…more than food, He says.

Isaiah 55
WAIT and listen, everyone who is thirsty! Come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Yes, come, buy [priceless, spiritual] wine and milk without money and without price [simply for the self-surrender that accepts the blessing].
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your earnings for what does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness [the profuseness of spiritual joy].

Obviously we can’t go without physical food for too long or we’ll die, we understand that. Yet, we continually starve our soul, our spiritual selves, by not dining on His daily bread, by not turning to Him and His Word daily. However, turning to Him alone, won’t satisfy us. We must be obedient to His Word. For complete satisfaction, we must listen and obey.

We say that we understand this, but we don’t. If we did, more of us would be in His Word more often…and we as individuals would look different, and the church would look different, and the world would look different. People would hate less and love more. They would be quick to forgive an offense instead of wallering in it. We would not slander one another (in front of or behind one’s back) we would speak only words to uplift and encourage. We would be more patient with one another. We would be about our Father’s business, just as Jesus was.

In John 4, Jesus was tired from His journey. The disciples went to get some food, and they left Jesus behind. He runs into the woman at the well. During His conversation with her, he tells her this: All who drink of this water will be thirsty again. (speaking of the well water)
14But whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty any more. But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up (flowing, bubbling) [continually] within him unto (into, for) eternal life.

When the disciples returned with food they said, “Rabbi eat”. Jesus responded by saying, “I have food to eat that you know not of.” I can just imagine the disciples turning to one another, and saying, “who brought Him food??” Jesus follows that up with, “ My food (nourishment) is to do the will (pleasure) of Him Who sent Me and to accomplish and completely finish His work.”

So then, what do we do? Grab a daily devotional book. Read it, and the corresponding Bible passage that goes with it. Ask God to speak to you through it. Then listen and obey. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.

As I type this a song comes to mind that says, “I need You like water, like breath, like rain.” How true that is. Thanks for the reminder, Jesus, that apart from you, I can do nothing. But with you all things are possible.