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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