Are you feeling empty? Do you desire sustenance? Are you looking for physical, emotional, or spiritual nourishment? Would you like to be filled? Have you turned to the One who can fill you?
We have a variety of needs. We need physical nourishment that comes from food and water. We know the healthier we eat, the better the chance we will have good physical health. We seek emotional nourishment through relationships with others. The better those relationships, the better our mental health.
Spiritual nourishment is often overlooked or discarded in our culture. We may eat right and exercise for good physical health. We may discard bad relationships in favor of good ones to improve our emotional health. But we do not always seek to fill our spiritual needs. Even if we do, we only cursorily seek them on Sunday morning.
Folks, let’s be honest. Spending one hour a week in worship is not going to fill us spiritually. Just as we eat multiple times a day, we need to spend multiple times per day with God. Just as we interact with our family and friends throughout the day, we need to interact with God throughout the day.
Neglecting our spiritual well-being is tantamount to neglecting feeding our bodies with energy producing food. Until we recognize the absolute need to fill ourselves spiritually, we will continue to be hungry and thirsty. Our souls crave a healthy relationship with God.
I pray we all seek to have a good relationship with God. I pray we recognize the need to fill ourselves spiritually. I pray each one of us will commit to spending more time with God. Seek spiritual fulfillment. Spend time each day with God. Interact with God continually. Ask Jesus to fill you.
Matthew 14:20-21 And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
Marty Pressey 