Establishing rhythm in the Word

How often do you eat? Once per day? Three times? Six? Who in the world would eat six meals per day you might ask. Healthy people and body builders do. Growing up as a child in our home we at three meals a day and maybe a snack. Then I hit the teen years. God bless my parents. I ate them out of house and home. 

In the morning I would have cereal and toast.  At lunch I would have a sandwich and a shake. By the time I got home I would eat a can of spaghetti and a pb&j. Then I would ask when dinner was. My mom was amazed how much I consumed. It was a blessing that mom is such a great cook too. I was just an eating machine. God bless mom. 

I say all that to say that my parents set the tone and rhythm for eating, but so did my growth. New believers as well as seasoned need to establish healthy rhythms in the Word. God says for us to remember what He has done for us and receive the meals he gives to nourish our souls. “Open your mouths wide so that I can fill it”. Prior to receiving Christ we fill our souls with all kinds of things good and evil. 

We fill the hunger void with drugs and alcohol. We fill it with relationships both positive and negative. We also fill it by doing good that benefits others and ourselves. None Of this truly satisfies. It leaves wanting. We remain hungry and thirsty.  It all ends up destroying us through malnutrition. It always brings death. 

We can not live on bread alone.  Jesus says, we live on the Words that come from the mouth of God. We drink from the fountain of living waters. When we consume the Word we are satisfied. Filled. Our soul lives and thrives. There is never a shortage of this bread and water. It never goes bad nor turns stale. It always gives life. 

How often do you read? How often to you hear it? Once per week on Sunday? Five minutes in the bathroom? Twice per week? Your bodily food doesn’t care about you. Yet we watch hours of videos on how to make food. What does it do? It makes you hungry and focused on the next meal. Satisfaction becomes illusive.  

Your soul longs to be satisfied. Nothing. No religion. No striving. No success. No mere person. Only Jesus satisfies. The more we feed on him the more life we have. He gives it abundantly. So pull up a chair to his table . He will dine with you and you will dine with him.