Do You Eat Well Spiritually?

An Abundance of Spiritual Food

There is certainly no shortage of good spiritual food. As Jesus Christ prophesied, he now has  a faithful and discreet slave class that is busy providing  "food at the proper time" for anyone who wants it.  (Matthew 24:45) Through the prophet Isaiah, Jehovah promised:   "Look! My own servants will eat, but you yourselves will go hungry, . . .My own servants will cry out joyfully because of  the good condition of the heart." In fact, he promises a banquet of food for those who want to eat it.  "Jehovah of armies will certainly make for the peoples . . .a banquet of well-oiled dishes, a banquet of wine kept on the dregs , of well-oiled dishes filled with marrow." -Isaiah 25:6; 65:13, 14. 

Think of this, though: We could starve to death at a banquet!  Surrounded by food, we can still end up  undernourished if we do not rouse ourselves to eat some of it. Proverbs 26:15 provides  This literal description:  "The lazy one has hidden his hand in the banquet bowl; he has become too weary to bring it back to his mouth."  What a sad situation!  We can likewise become too lazy to exert ourselves in personal study of God's Word and Bible publications designed to help us take in  spiritual food. Or we can become too weary to prepare or participate in the meetings of the Christian congregation. 

Next time: Do You Eat Well Spiritually? - Good Eating Habits

From the Watchtower magazine, 1997