Feed on the Things of God
We can spend our time feeding on many things. Some are good, some are bad, and some are just distractions and a waste of our time. We need to feed on God’s Word daily. We feed our bodies, so we need to feed our spirits and souls with God’s Word so we’re strong- spirit, soul, and body. We build our bodies up through good nutrition and exercise. We need to feed ourselves God’s Word and act on it to be strong spiritually and soulishly.
The more we feed on the things of God, the more we will desire God and godly things. In contrast, the less we feed on God’s Word, the less we will desire God, and we leave room for other things to come in and take His place. Whomever and whatever we spend our time on will become our focus. We will become focused on sensual, natural, lower-level things. When we focus on spiritual things, we become more like God in how we think, feel, react, speak, and act.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. II Corinthians 3:17-18 (KJV)
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. Psalm 17:15 (KJV)
The more we behold Jesus in His Word and in experiencing His manifest presence during times of worship, the more we desire and become like Jesus. As we pray, the Spirit of the Lord changes us to be like Christ.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:1-2 (KJV)
The more we give our bodies to God, we can live holy, acceptable and pleasing to God. The more we say yes to God, the more we have power to say no to sin. As we renew our minds to God’s Word, we will accept His ways and reject the world’s ways. Their ways reject God and promote self, sin, and satan. The more we feed on God and His Word and ways, we will starve out and have no room for worldly desires.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. James 1:25 (KJV)
As we continue in God’s Word, we will be blessed in all we do. The ultimate blessing is to have God Himself. That leads us to follow His ways. His ways are based on His Word- the two are One. His ways are also based on the Holy Spirit leading us closer and closer to him, beholding His face. Then we are changed to be like Him, where our one true desire is to know, love, and live in Him.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. I John 2:15-17 (KJV)
As we feed on God, we lose an appetite for the things of the world. This world is temporal and passing away, but those who do the will of God will abide and live forever.
