IN this snow scene the trees look quite bare. They do not look as though they would afford much food. Yet the deer is busy eating —feeding on the twigs.
Eating is a very important and necessary thing. Can you mention any creature that does not eat? You eat several times every day. You see the dogs and cats eating. If you have a canary bird you give it seeds and other things to eat. You see the horses and cows feeding on the grass in the pasture. Yes, every creature has to eat to live. Without any food we would starve to death. Without enough food we may live, but we will not be strong and healthy.
The food we have been talking about is food for the natural body—for the life that each person and each creature gets when it comes into this, world.
Do you know, little reader, of any other kind of food? Have you heard of another kind of life? Jesus said when here on earth, “Ye must be born again.” John 3:77Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. (John 3:7). When a person is born again and becomes a child of God, he has a new life. This life is very different from the natural life we all have. It is eternal. It needs, too a very different kind of food. This new or spiritual life cannot be fed with milk, meat, potatoes, apples, and other things of that kind.
What is the new kind of food we need as children of God? In John 6:3535And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John 6:35)’ Jesus says, “I am the bread of life.” Jesus, when tempted by the devil, said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
At the well of Sychar He said to His disciples, “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me.” When we read God’s Word and act upon it, we feed upon Christ and do the will of God. Thus our souls are fed with spiritual food, and we grow to be strong in the Lord.
Dear reader, it is just as important that you give your soul good, wholesome food every day as it is that you feed the body. Do not starve your precious soul, but feast continually on that heavenly food that always brings with it great strength, blessing and joy.
Messages of God’s Love 12/3/1911