BEING
WITH THE HEAVENLY FATHER -
......DEVOTIONS
FOR LAMBS.
No.
16
From Wendy Howard [Editor of Despatch magazine],
Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia.
Access Online http://www.despatch.cth.com.au/Main/index.htm
Getting
to know God together.
BEING
WITH THE HEAVENLY FATHER -
......DEVOTIONS
FOR LAMBS.
No.
16
From Wendy Howard [Editor of Despatch magazine],
Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia.
Access Online http://www.despatch.cth.com.au/Main/index.htm
Getting
to know God together.
When
you eat those things you want to eat them always.
But
could you really live on them?
If
you only had "junk food"
for a whole year you would grow fat, you would be covered in pimples and
you would not be well at all.
We
need really healthy food to grow a healthy body.
It
is OK to have some food just for fun,
as
long as we eat fruit and vegetables and stuff like that as well.
Anyway, there's nothing that really tastes as nice as a bowl of home-made vege soup, with a crusty bread roll straight from the oven! Yumm! I love that better still.
When
Jesus Christ came into your life He made your spirit come alive.
Now
you have to feed your spirit, just like you have to feed your body. You
want to have a strong healthy spirit inside, that's for sure. And you don't
want it to get sick because you only feed your spirit junk food.
Some
kids only feed their spirits junk food. They watch television, read comic
books, play computer games, but they never feed their spirits from the
Word of God. That is bad news.
How
can our spirits grow if we don't feed them on the Living Bread. The Bible's
wonderful words are Living Bread. Jesus said:
"It
is written,
That
man shall not live by bread alone,
but
by every word of God." (Luke 4:4).
Food
is very important for our bodies.
If
you got lost in the bush up in the outback of Australia, and you were starving,
you
would give a bag of gold for a bag of plain old bread.
The
Bible tells us that "every word of God"
is more important than even bread is!
Jesus
Christ was out in the desert for forty days without food.
Then
the devil came to try to make Him turn away from the Heavenly Father.
The
devil said,
"If
thou be the Son of God,
command
this stone that it be made bread."
And
Jesus told him where to go!
He
said that He lived by "every word of God."
Jesus
wouldn't swap doing what His Father wanted Him to do, just to have food.
How
important then is God's Word, it is more important even than food for our
bodies.
You can have a spiritual feast today.
Here
is some spirit food for you.
Find
it in your Bible, or get someone to help you.
Psalm
48:14; Matthew 6:8; Matthew 24:35
EXTRAS FOR TEENS AND BETWEENS
Some people live all their lives without God."Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?
by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart,
that I might not sin against thee." (Psalm 119:9,11).
Feeding
the spirit on God's Word will enable you to grow into a fine adult.
You
can then live successfully, and end up when you are old with no regrets,
no
"if
onlys."
Take
in spiritual food every day, obey what God gives you,
and
you will be a healthy Christian.
That
is the way to a successful life.
"Seek you first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,
and all these things will be added unto you." (Matthew 6:33)
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