Spiritual Nutrition
Spiritual Nutrition
Some people have "green thumbs" and then there are those of us who have other colors of thumb, not being successes at gardening or even keeping gift plants alive.
There is a particular brand which boasts you can become a "green thumb" if only you use their products.
Well, this got me to thinking on this passage from Colossians 2:6-7: "Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude."
What nourishes you spiritually?
Peter writes about the need for "the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation" (1 Peter 2:2)
Psalm 1 refers to the righteous as being like "a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither" and Psalm 92 states, "The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green, to declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him."
Jeremiah 17:7-8 is similar: "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD and whose truth is in the LORD. For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, that extends its roots into the stream and does not fear when the heat comes; but its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield its fruit."
What nourishes you spiritually will be revealed in fruit in season and out of season.
2 Peter 3:18: "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and in the day of eternity. Amen."
Some people have "green thumbs" and then there are those of us who have other colors of thumb, not being successes at gardening or even keeping gift plants alive.
There is a particular brand which boasts you can become a "green thumb" if only you use their products.
Well, this got me to thinking on this passage from Colossians 2:6-7: "Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude."
What nourishes you spiritually?
Peter writes about the need for "the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation" (1 Peter 2:2)
Psalm 1 refers to the righteous as being like "a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither" and Psalm 92 states, "The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green, to declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him."
Jeremiah 17:7-8 is similar: "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD and whose truth is in the LORD. For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, that extends its roots into the stream and does not fear when the heat comes; but its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield its fruit."
What nourishes you spiritually will be revealed in fruit in season and out of season.
2 Peter 3:18: "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and in the day of eternity. Amen."
posted by Ebeth | 6:28 PM
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