Good Morning All,
Psalm 145: 15-16; “The eyes of all look
to you, and you give them their food in due season.
You open your hand; you
satisfy the desire of every living thing.”
I
have been reading again about the nutritional value of various foods. I feel like I am watching a ping pong
match. As foods go from good to bad to
good to bad for you. Dairy, eggs, red
meat, butter, bread have all switched sides through the years. It seems we never really know what is good or
bad for us. We know what tastes and
usually just hope it is, at least, not real bad for us.
They try and use a food pyramid to help us
understand the number of servings that we need to eat each day. It advises different amounts of fruits and
vegetables, dairy, proteins and fats. It
seems at times that this pyramid changes shape as the recommendations change
but it is still pretty much the same.
In our faith life, we need to be fed and
nourished as well. We need to do so for
most of the same reasons we need physical nourishment. It provides us energy for building
muscle. It provides for the needs of our
body on a daily basis. God provides
these for us. He gives us His Word and
sacraments, prayer and praise and worship.
We need to see these as the faith pyramid. These are the elements by which our faith is
strengthened.
We have God’s Word where he reveals his
love for us. He reveals his plan of
salvation for us. He offers us his words
of forgiveness and hope. We need to
daily take this important nutrient to heart to find the comfort and the
consolation we seek.
We have his sacraments to nourish our soul
and to give us forgiveness. It is
through these gracious gifts that we receive the nourishment that we can feel
and taste. We can taste just a tiny bit
of the heavenly feast that we will share with Jesus and all the believers. We need to consume these on a regular basis.
God gives us prayer to help nourish
us. We can use prayer to speak to God
from our heart. We can go to him crying
from the depth of our fears; we can go to him lamenting the pain of our
suffering and we can go to him singing with joyful hearts the wonder of his
love and blessings for us. God uses
prayer as a way to nourish us by changing us as we speak to him. We should be in constant communication with
our God.
Through all of this we will experience
God’s mercy and we should give thanks.
We should give thanks to God for his wondrous mercy showered upon us
minute by minute. We should praise his
glorious name as a way to remind us of what God does for us at all times and in
all ways. We should praise him morning,
noon and night. The wonders of his love
are never lost.
Father
of all love and mercy, you nourish us so that we may be stronger in this walk
of life. Through your generous gift of
hope we sing with joy. Guard us by your Spirit.
Be with those who are undernourished and are feeling weak. Bring them safely into your loving arms. In the precious name of Jesus, our risen
savior we pray amen,
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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