Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Nourish.
Nourish – it’s the perfect word prompt on this day after Thanksgiving.
The day when many of us ate enough food to put ourselves into a tryptophan nap. We nourished our bodies from every food group possible.
The thing is no matter how much we consumed, we will be hungry today. Our bodies will need to be nourished again.
“Nourish” – “to supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth” (from dictionary.com).
The word causes me to ask this question: Did we nourish our souls?
“Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger …”
(John 6:35, NASB)
In the first chapters of the Gospel of John, we are told that Jesus is the Word, ”˜the logos” (it’s the Greek word that is used there). Now John shares the very words in which Jesus identifies and defines Himself as “The Bread of Life.”
He alone is able to nourish our souls each day. It is Jesus alone, the logos, the Living Word, Who alone will satisfy our hunger.
Each time we crack open our Bibles, we must believe we will find His Word spoken to us personally. We must believe that as we are holding our Bibles in our hands, it is His Word for us. Then we will never be hungry. It is then we will find ourselves nourished.
The prompt brought these familiar words to mind:
“Fill my cup, Lord
I lift it up, Lord
Come and quench this thirsting of my soul
Bread of Heaven, feed me ’til I want no more
Fill my cup, fill it up and make me whole.”(from the song, Fill My Cup Lord)
 “Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger …”
We can feed our bodies, but
only Jesus can nourish our souls.
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What a great post! Yes Jesus nourishes our souls when we come to Him to satisfy our hungry souls.
now I’ll have that song in my head all day. 🙂 good words written. FMF3
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He is the Bread of Life and He alone can satisfy our hunger is a wonderful reminder, Joanne.
Not one day is like the other. Each day is a gift to appreciate. With our eyes, we see the world. With our hearts, we feel life’s vibrations. A life filled with gratitude is a sweet awareness of the day’s blessing.
Food nourishes the outer man,
Christ nourishes the soul,
but I find that working with my hands
unifies the whole.
The bright hiss of the welding torch,
the scrape of file on steel,
wood-shaping, standing on my porch,
these to me make real
the God who came of virgin birth,
a carpenter’s strong son,
to work His craft and save the Earth,
for they are truly one,
and temporal’s best not neglected,
for Heaven is our world perfected.
Jesus is the bread of life–He nourishes our souls. A very appropriate message for the season (and for any time). Thank you.
Great post! Thank you for sharing. This has given me some more to think on!
Amen Joanne! Great post!
Blessings,
Jennifer