Do we recognise the food we need?

I lost my appetite a little while back. I knew that I needed to eat though. I knew this and as such I had to effectively force feed myself.
I didn’t enjoy the experience, but I knew that I needed the energy.

There were actually two times I lost my appetite.
The first was when I was overcoming a virus. I was weak from the virus and I did not want to face food, but I knew that my body needed the energy to continue to recover.
The second time was when I was experiencing pain. Again I just lost my appetite. But, I just knew that I needed energy. If anything I needed more energy to cope with the pain that I was experiencing. I was working harder just to do normal things, hence my increased need for energy.

On both occasions my body was telling me, “I don’t want anything to eat.” On both occasions I had to ignore this message my body was sending to me and I just had to force feed myself something in order to recover and have the energy needed for the day.

Physical food is one thing, but there is another type of food that we need? Spiritual food.

If we starve ourselves of spiritual food, then how will we stand up to the pressures of life?

Sometimes we may not have much of an appetite for healthy spiritual food, but are there times when we just need to force feed ourselves the spiritual food that we need?

Are there times when we just have to tell ourselves to just seek our Heavenly Fathers face, even though it might be the last thing that we want to do?

I’ve heard it said that prayer, the word and fellowship are like a three legged stool. With all three in place the stool is stable and can be sat on. Take one of those three legs away and the stool just falls over.

Prayer.
Talking to your Heavenly Father, and hearing His words back to you.

The Word.
Reading your bible, and hearing what God is speaking to you through what you read.

Fellowship.
Meeting with fellow believers in order to share what God has been speaking to you, and also to hear what God has been speaking to others. In good fellowship we can uphold others while they also uphold us.

Prayer, the word and fellowship are three forms of spiritual food that will nourish us if we can feed ourselves with them. Hopefully we won’t always need to force feed ourselves these spiritual foods, but sometimes we might have to just do this in order to remain fit and healthy, in Our Lord God Almighty.

Father,
Help all to come to You, to receive all the goodness that You have for us.
Thank you that You are there to lead, guide and nourish us with all the blessings that You have for us.
Our Loving Father in Heaven.
Amen.