Food and Rest

 

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Faith's Check Book, Daily Entry

C. H. Spurgeon

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August 25

Food and Rest

I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God. (Ezekiel 34:15)

Under the divine shepherdry saints are fed to the full. Theirs is not a windy, unsatisfying mess of mere human "thought," but the Lord feeds them upon the solid, substantial truth of divine revelation. There is real nutriment for the soul in Scripture brought home to the heart by the Holy Spirit. Jesus Himself is the true life-sustaining Food of believers. Here our Great Shepherd promises that such sacred nourishment shall be given us by His own self. If, on the Lord's Day, our earthly shepherd is empty-handed, the Lord is not.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests. Those whom Jehovah feeds are at peace. No dog shall worry them, no wolf shall devour them, no restless propensities shall disturb them. They shall lie down and digest the food which they have enjoyed. The doctrines of grace are not only sustaining but consoling: in them we have the means for building up and lying down. If preachers do not give us rest, let us look to the Lord for it.

This day may the Lord cause us to feed in the pastures of the Word and make us to lie down in them. May no folly and no worry but meditation and peace mark this day.

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The Spurgeon Archive

"There is real nutriment for the soul in Scripture brought home to the heart by the Holy Spirit. Jesus Himself is the true life-sustaining Food of believers."

This reminds me of the words of wisdom that Jesus speaks to His disciples after talking to the Samaritan women at the well.
Read the whole chapter there is alot to chew on there. 
Found in John Chapter 4. 

In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
		But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."
		Therefore the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?"
			Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
		"Do you not say, 'There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!
		"And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
			"For in this the saying is true: 'One sows and another reaps.'
		"I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors."
		And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all that I ever did."
			So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
		And many more believed because of His own word.
			Then they said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."