FASTING OR FEASTING?

Do you like fasting? I have to confess that I never enjoy it. I love eating my three meals every day to nourish my physical body. And yet, isn't it incredible that many believers seem to enjoy fasting from food for their inner man? Paul speaks in 2 Corinthians 4:16 about the "inward man" being "RENEWED DAY BY DAY." It is difficult to keep up with a physically demanding life unless we eat good wholesome food. In the same way, we have to feed our inner man if we are going to be strong and victorious for the challenges we face each day, and whatever we may face in the future.

Some folks rely on a Sunday service message each week. Help, we'd be very weak in body if we only ate once a week. Just as our body needs renewing day by day, so our soul and spirit must be renewed each day. We renew it as we feed on God's Word. It is our life and our sustenance. We renew it as we commune with the Father and allow the Holy Spirit to work in our lives.

"But," you reply, "How can I get time to feed on God's Word with all my little children around me, needing me at every moment?" Establish Family Devotions together as a family. I couldn't think of not starting and ending our day with Family Devotions. They are feeding times for my soul and spirit.

Put a Bible in the bathroom/restroom and grab a morsel from the Psalms or Proverbs. Put a Bible on your windowsill to grab another morsel as you prepare meals and do dishes. Have a Bible near where you nurse your baby.

And what about your children? Dear mother, we have just as great a responsibility to nourish the souls and spirits of our children as their physical bodies. We'd have the CPS on our doorstep if we only fed our children once a week. And yet many don't care that the souls of their children are starving! Their spirits must be fed each new day, too. And what about your teens? They will not face the temptations of this world if their spirits are not strong and daily renewed in God's Word and bathed in prayer.

Love from Nancy Campbell