How to Satisfy Your Soul
Is your soul satisfied? How do you feed your own soul? What does shape your soul? It does make a huge difference what we let enter into our souls. We can harm our souls with wrong choices.
“We work to feed our appetites;
Meanwhile our souls go hungry.
(Ecclesiastes 6:7, MSG)“Don’t dabble in the occult or traffic with mediums; you’ll pollute your souls. I am God, your God. (Leviticus 19: 31, MSG)
“Look at that man, bloated by self-importance—
full of himself but soul-empty.
But the person in right standing before God
through loyal and steady believing
is fully alive, really alive.
(Habakkuk 2: 4, MSG)
Hungry souls, polluted souls or soul-emptiness are not what we are looking for in life. Yet we might very well end up there if we don’t choose wisely what shapes our souls. The easy street will never give us what it promises. But the person in right standing before God will never regret his choices. God has not and will not break his promises.
I’ll refresh tired bodies;
I’ll restore tired souls.
(Jeremiah 31:25, MSG)Dear friend, listen well to my words;
tune your ears to my voice.
Keep my message in plain view at all times.
Concentrate! Learn it by heart!
Those who discover these words live, really live;
body and soul, they’re bursting with health.
(Proverbs 4: 20-22, MSG)
As we mature in faith we need to learn to feed our souls to keep ourselves spiritually satisfied. It is not our pastor’s duty to keep our souls refreshed. We need to take responsibility for our own spiritual well-being. God has given us tools to refresh our souls regularly in order to be bursting with spiritual health. The main thing is to have an on-going and loving relationship with Jesus.
On the final and climactic day of the Feast, Jesus took his stand. He cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says.” (He said this in regard to the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. The Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.) (John 7: 37-39, MSG)
Jesus is the word of God. If we regularly read the Scriptures and drink deep draughts of Jesus our souls will always be satisfied. If we wander away from Jesus soon we find ourselves soul-empty, drained, and incredibly thirsty. What we learned last week does not satisfy us today. We need to feed our souls every day. The only way to water our souls is to cling to Jesus. There is no where else to turn. Because he has the words of eternal life.
Gracious God,
We come to you thirsty and hungry,
nourish our souls.
We bring to you our tired bodies and souls,
refresh and restore us.
We offer our lives to you,
equip and empower us.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen
Q4U: How do you feed your soul?
Be blessed my fellow pilgrim as you keep your soul satisfied in Jesus!
Image courtesy of Daniel R . This post is part of Thought Provoking Thursdays and
14 thoughts on “How to Satisfy Your Soul”
Nothing satisfies as much as Jesus.
Amen, sister! Thanks for chiming in! Stay blessed!
Great post. I love that you point out its ultimately up to us to keep ourselves refreshed. How do I do that? Prayer, sermons online, reading His word and other books that motivate me to seek more of Him. My favorite though is having a great lunch with good friends as we talk about Jesus and His hand on our lives always leaves my spirit stirred inside.
Thank you, Misty, for sharing your ways to keep yourself spiritually refreshed! I think we often forget to mention spiritual friendships among other means of grace! Abundant blessings to you on your faith journey, sis!
“What we learned last week does not satisfy us today. We need to feed our souls every day.”
Oh, what mature wisdom here, Mari-Anna. I so often want to feed off yesterday’s manna, but I need to pick up today’s supply instead to get full nourishment.
Yes,Lisa, I hear you! But isn’t it wonderful that there is always a fresh supply waiting for us? Thank you for your comment. God’s rich manna for you today and always!
” We need to take responsibility for our own spiritual well-being.”
I love this statement on your ‘tweet’. This is the missing link in too much of today’s instruction: that Paul talked in Romans about “the obedience of faith”, and in Galatians of “faith which works thru love”. But the thing I like most about the post is that you majored on God Himself and His promises to those who are hungry & thirsty, to those who have been brought to a clear vision of all that does not truly satisfy.
Thank you, John Paul! God’s word sure is the most powerful tool to convey God’s message! God bless you!
Great post, Mari-Anna. I loved the quotes you chose from the Scripture. And you made a great point, “what we learned last week does not satisfy us today”. It is the same as food for the body, right? We have to eat several times a day to keep our bodies healthy. So why we keep forgetting to feed our souls as often?
Thank you, Cris! Yes, it is funny how many times we have to “try on our own and fail” before we learn to feed ourselves regularly. But once we learn it there is no turning back! Blessings to you, sis!
What a wonderful way to remind us the importance of spending time in the Bible daily. The best way to receive our “fill” is through prayer and time in the Word every day.
Thanks, Sharon! Yes, praying and reading the Bible are the surefire ways to get our fix on Jesus! God bless you, sis!
So many profound thoughts! Being able to self-feed and do some self-care is crucial for the mature believer. The Word is foundational; there’s not doubt about it. We also need to find the other things God has provided and wired us for that make our souls sing.
Thank you, Sheryl! Yes, I agree…each of us has been wired differently and that way also spiritual nutrition is a bit different for everyone. Thanks for sharing! Abundant blessings to you!