SOUL FOOD

October 31, 2005

SOUL FOOD

Psalms 19:8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Many today proclaim themselves to be teachers of the truth from God. Maybe they are but the litmus test is that the statutes of the Lord rejoice the heart. The statutes of the Lord rejoice our heart because of their rightness. They calm the confusion from the world with their safe boundaries; they soothes the hurt and pain of our heart with their balm; they directs us in the right way with their light; they comfort our sorrow with their love, and they enable our weakness with their strength. If the words that we hear in an “honest and good heart” (Luke 8:15) does not provoke these in us but rather bring confusion, doubt, fear and a perverted sense of freedom, if the words of truth that is imparted to us does not rejoice our heart with its rightness, they are not the statutes f the Lord.

When we have truly been fed by the Word of Truth, be it written or oral, we go away full, satisfied, purified, and enlightened. We see our way better, understand our life better, our spiritual life progresses and is on the “up-swing”. We may not understand everything in our mind but we do in our faith, so we grows.

Every once in a while we need to ask ourself, “Am I getting fed? Am I getting fed good healthy food of the spirit that promotes growth, or am I feeding on “junk-food” that only makes me fat? Am I feeding on the pure Word of God, or am I listening to flattering fables? The answer is simple, are we rejoicing and enlightened about our life, or are we confused and in the dark?

1 Peter 2:1-3 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.