Date: Friday, 6th December, 2024
Text: Matthew 4:4
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
We spend so much on our bodies to maintain good health and vitality. This is great, but man is not made up of the body alone. We are tripartite meaning man is a spirit having a soul and dwelling in a body. In other words the body is just like a garment that wears out over time and is eventually put away.
Your body is temporal and would one day expire, be discarded and degraded; the spirit and soul, however, would continue to exist forever- Luke 16:19-31.
It is therefore not a wise thing to focus on the body at the expense of the spirit and soul.
The word of God says, “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord”- Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4.
The Word Of God, therefore, is the Bread of Life, the Soul Food that you will eat and be spiritually satisfied.
Just like the body shows deficiency signs when malnourished, the spirit and soul also display warning signs when not well nourished. Symptoms of spiritual malnourishment includes but not limited to tiredness, weakness, disinterest in spiritual things, discouragement, drifting away from the path of truth and drifting towards disobedience; anxiety, leaning more on your own understanding and less on the God’s wisdom etc
The same way you conduct medical check up on your body it is also very necessary to do regular spiritual check up on your spirit and soul through the mirror of God’s word- 2 Corinthians 13:5.
Action Nugget: Spend quality time reading, studying and meditating on God’s word daily.