Your soul’s nourishment

God's prescription for your soul's nourishment is His word. Unless we eat His word, our souls are malnourished. Do you understand why we are never satisfied? Money, pleasure, success and other things bring a temporary joy, but they soon become our master, don't they? They begin to rule and dominate our lives. They are hard masters, constantly demanding more from us. The sooner God’s people understand and believe that all other masters are harsh, and there is actually only one good Master, who is better to us than we are to ourselves, the sooner our lives will find pure contentment and joy.

Let me repeat myself, the good things of this world cannot satisfy us completely. Nothing or no one can fully satisfy us, except One. Because we were created by Him and for Him, no one or nothing can fully satisfy our souls than to meet and rest in our God. And His best prescription in meeting and resting on Him is when our knowledge of Him is real and growing. As you well know, God taught us in Romans 10:17, our faith is meant to grow when we hear His word. Of course, hearing in this instance would not mean like hearing news on the radio as you are driving. Hearing here means that we are hungering for His word, anticipating that He will speak, and when hearing His word spoken, we believe and do our utmost to obey what He has taught us.

I believe one of the best ways for God's people to hear God's word is by reading His word. When reading His word you want to understand the big picture, but also see incredible nuggets of truth that are so delicious that you want to dig even deeper. Thus, to accomplish both, I am of the opinion that you need to read God's word twofold; first, read a large chunk in one seating (I recommend four chapters a day, which will help you read the Bible in one year), and secondly, choose a book to study in depth, which means you will read a small portion, like a portion of a chapter, and study. There, ask, "How is God revealing Himself?" "How am I to live in light of God's revelation?" Did you know, the more you search for Him, the more He will delight to reveal Himself to His people? Moreover, the more you find Him, the more you will fall in love with this great and amazing God that is more than you can ever ask for.

When we begin to truly see Him, we will taste what true satisfaction and contentment is. Don’t worry about cutting away your worldly pleasures that keep stumbling you. When He is near and dear to us, what the world has to offer is so small and so insignificant, that they pale in comparison. Our job as His people is see Him, meet Him, taste Him, then our desire will be for Him alone. So, open up God’s word at home. Read four chapters a day. Also, study a portion of one chapter through a book, do your QT there, and see what glimpses of your God you catch.

It is my prayer that your souls will be richly nourished as you read and digest His word!