Dear Ones,
Hope you had a wonderful weekend. My brother and sister-in-law came yesterday afternoon and so enjoyable catching up with them. This morning, I plan to do some cooking and go to Aldi’s and exercise class.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
Don’t we all like fresh baked bread, cookies, or muffins etc. right from the oven as they are moist and tender and full of aroma. Quite a contrast to hard donuts that are few days old or toast that sat out and now cold and hard. Why are we so quick to want fresh things to eat physically but willing to spiritually be satisfied with old crusts. We don’t have to live on leftovers from our childhood or what we learned even last month, for the Lord has fresh manna to give us that will satisfy our present hunger.

We are in a different place each day and what was perfect to meet yesterday’s needs may not fit for today. We need to seek God each day and find what He wants us to feed on, for He knows what our day will hold. We are fortunate in our country to have Bibles available to us, but in countries where Christians are persecuted, Bibles have to be hidden or they are confiscated.

Let us ask ourselves if we hungry for the Lord and want to hear from Him each morning as we awaken? Just because we ate spiritually yesterday doesn’t mean we won’t be hungry today. We need to feed daily on His Word and drink from His flowing stream of living water. We should daily seek to have our hunger satisfied and our spiritual thirst quenched. As it says in Psalm 42:1-2a “As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” Our souls suffer hunger and thirst and it is only met in the Lord and we need to continually seek Him and not just once in a while. One time long ago, Al and I were in a ghost town in Colorado and we could find no water. I was so thirsty and we had to wait and wait and I ended up with a terrible headache. How I had longed for a glass of cold water and suffered because of the lack of it. Let us not be negligent but every day ask the Lord to feed us and give us His living water.

Challenge for today: Satisfy your hunger and thirst for the Lord by spending time in your day alone with Him and receive all that He has to give you.
Blessings on your week and prayers and love, Judy