All tagged nourishment

Communion; the Roux of Life and Love Everlasting

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Tasting Communion, Tasting Communion

What nourishes our faith? What does our Spirit consume for its strength? When we go to the Lord’s Table we feed our souls the flesh and blood of Jesus, and this sustenance brings us life, eternal life. To consume the body of Christ is to bring Him inside us... to allow Him to dwell in a physical as well as spiritual sense within us. Communion, it is the life-giving nourishment of the Christian experience… it is the most wonderful and satisfying meal taken in the tiniest of morsels and smallest of sips… It is the enormity of eternity in the most meager of earthly portions.

Jesus; Is He Simply a Suit of Clothes?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Superficial Faith

We say we are Christians but continue to live our lives of faith like suits of clothes; we treat our belief in Jesus Christ lightly by wearing them superficially and only letting Him brush lightly against our skin when we should actually be taking Jesus into our very being, our hearts, and consuming our faith in Him like the communion meal demonstrates. We should be making Him the ingredient that every other part of us feeds on, is nourished by, and is completed by. When we take the body and blood of Jesus into us, we become as one, and our faith is made whole in Him. In this way we have without a doubt become believers… and Christian. Do we do this?

Famished in the Presence of Plenty

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Nourishing Prayer

How is your life in Christ? Before you answer this question answer another... "How often do you pray?" We think that our life with Jesus is robust because of the works, and the other things we do, and yet we have not humbled ourselves before our Heavenly Father in prayer as He taught us to do. We think that we are like Him as we go through the motions of religion, and yet our relationship with God is starving.