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To Feed the Soul, Commune Constantly With Jesus, Nobember
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O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my
flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.
Psalm 63:1
, NKJV.
No human agent can supply that which will satisfy the hunger and thirst of the
soul. But Jesus says, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with
me” (
Revelation 3:20
). “I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never
hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst” (
John 6:35
).
As we need food to sustain our physical strength, so do we need Christ, the
Bread from heaven, to sustain spiritual life and impart strength to work the works
of God. As the body is continually receiving the nourishment that sustains life and
vigor, so the soul must be constantly communing with Christ, submitting to Him
and depending wholly upon Him.
As the weary traveler seeks the spring in the desert and, finding it, quenches his
burning thirst, so will the Christian thirst for and obtain the pure water of life, of
which Christ is the fountain.
As we discern the perfection of our Savior’s character we shall desire to become
wholly transformed and renewed in the image of His purity. The more we know
of God, the higher will be our ideal of character and the more earnest our longing
to reflect His likeness. A divine element combines with the human when the soul
reaches out after God and the longing heart can say, “My soul, wait thou only upon
God; for my expectation is from him” (
Psalm 62:5
).
If you have a sense of need in your soul, if you hunger and thirst after righteous-
ness, this is an evidence that Christ has wrought upon your heart, in order that He
may be sought unto to do for you, through the endowment of the Holy Spirit, those
things which it is impossible for you to do for yourself....
The words of God are the wellsprings of life. As you seek unto those living
springs you will, through the Holy Spirit, be brought into communion with Christ.
Familiar truths will present themselves to your mind in a new aspect, texts of
Scripture will burst upon you with a new meaning as a flash of light, you will see
the relation of other truths to the work of redemption, and you will know that Christ
is leading you, a divine Teacher is at your side.—
Thoughts from the Mount of
Blessing, 18-20
.
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