OF THE MOUTH AND THE SOUL

Proverbs 16:26
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

Hunger is the greatest driving force in the world. If men didn’t need to eat, he would just sit and take his ease. Hunger forces him to get up and toil at some field so he can harvest and feed himself and his family. We glorify the laboring man, and it is good, but what glory should he receive from his natural labor? He knows that if he doesn’t somehow work, he will not eat. The pangs of hunger and our insatiable constant need for food are actually the real driving forces of forward motion. Man works, and he feeds himself.

Man also has the choice to feed himself healthy food to his strengthening and edification, or to eat sweet fatty and easily palatable junk food to his weakening and eventual death. He can use his innate notion of labor to strengthen, or to kill himself.

Behold now the great spiritual lesson that should be learned from this natural observation. As it is in the carnal, so it is in the spiritual. Our soul’s craving for spiritual food is not unlike that of our mouth for physical nourishment. The inquisitive soul hungers for the things of God. It wants to return to its original state, in the presence of the Almighty. He who is attuned to his soul feels its constant tugging at the door of the spirit; its searching and laboring in an uncontrollable hunger for more of the spiritual truth that it so depends on. The Master taught us that those who hunger and thirst for righteousness shall be filled and so, the hungry soul will be rewarded.

In the spiritual realm though, man also has the choice as to what he eats and feeds his soul. He can use the inquisitiveness of his heart to feed himself the healthy direct Words of Life from God Himself, or just tease his soul with the sweet, fatty and easily palatable junk food given by those who pastorize, and process the Word of God into dead doctrines of man. His can direct his spiritual hunger to eternal life, or to spiritual death.