Today Annette continues the third instalment of her devotions looking at the theme of nourishment.
Can I encourage you to meditate on the fact that the love that nourishes Jesus is available to each and every one of us.
Imagine for a moment the love that a parent can have for a child.
The kind of love that would see the parent do anything they could to see their child happy, healthy and fulfilled. Sometimes these things will look like – doing the things that help them learn, it is the discipline that corrects a bad attitude or behaviour, it is doing those things that bring joy to them and above all it is loving them no matter what and without limit. Earthly parents are not perfect but even in our imperfections the one thing that costs us nothing is to love our children.
Take that same love and imagine this love coming from our infinitely perfect Father – our heavenly Father.
A love that outshines the brightest star and that is the kind of love that God has and expresses for Jesus throughout the Bible.
It is the kind of love that nourishes Jesus at every point of His life.
When he is celebrating his baptism, when He is turning water into wine, when he is healing the multitudes, when He is weary, when He is sweating droplets of blood in the garden of Gethsemane, and when He is calling out “My God, My God why have you abandoned me”.
In all of these instances it is the love of the Father for the Son that nourishes Jesus in order for Him to be obedient to the Father.
As we explore this concept of nourish it is our body, mind and spirit that need to be nourished and there is not a one size fits all way, in our earthly lives, that we can employ to nourish every part of our being.
But in our scripture for this week there is one thing that comes from Jesus to us that can and will nourish our hearts and that is the love of the Father for Jesus.
Jesus tells His disciples in our scripture that it is the same love from the Father that He in turn loves us with. That same love that nourishes Jesus “for I continually live nourished and empowered by his love” John 15:10b (The Passion Translation) is also intended to nourish and then empower us in all we do when we keep His commands. 
Spend time today being reminded once more that Jesus loves you. Be reminded that this love is for each of us, it never dims, it never waivers, it is never based on what you do or do not do.
It is not like the flawed love of earth, it is sure, steadfast, abundant and lavished upon us (refer to 1 John 3:1).
Blessings ’til next time 🙂
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