Yesterday Annette shared the first in a series of four devotions looking at the Father’s love, encouraging us to consider John 15:9 from The Passion Translation and start looking for those dry and parched places in your life that need to be ‘Nourished’.
You see, our hearts need to be nourished, we need to spend dedicated and focussed time nourishing our souls, our relationship with God and our friendships with others.
She writes;
If I was to ask the question “What Nourishes you” to a group of people, I would probably get as many different answers as there are people in the room.
The answers would also swing wildly from one end of the spectrum to the other. Some might say that getting together with a group of friends is what nourishes them, and another might say being by themselves is much more nourishing. One might say going for a long hike in nature and another would say blobbing in front of TV. For each of us this concept of being nourished is different and even could change depending on the stage of life.
The type of nourishing that we need will also depend on what it is that we have been doing to make us feel in need of nourishing. It might be that we have spent ages outside in the sun, or we might have spent days on end with people, or days stuck at home unwell.
In each case there will be a different thing that will nourish us.
When it comes to the theme nourish there will be times in our lives when we sit in a place of feeling like we are depleted to the point of withering away and becoming less than we should be. This is the time when we need to know the kinds of things that will fill us and help us to feel more like ourselves.
I know that for me there are times when I keep going and going like an energiser battery and I have to be reminded that the pace I have set cannot be maintained long term and I have to stop and renew my energy.
Our scripture for this week kind of gives us the permission we might need and perhaps we could see it as a divine reminder that our hearts need to be nourished.
Jesus is talking to the disciples and is teaching them about how they can bear good fruit for the Kingdom, how they can been seen as mature disciples and right in the middle of that teaching he tells them that their hearts need to be nourished. Even Jesus recognised the need for His people to be uplifted, cared for and nourished.
So, in these few days how are you going to nourish yourself? What things are you going to do or not do in an effort to take the necessary time you need to nourish your heart and soul?
Blessings ’til next time 🙂
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