Look up: Job 23: 12 Jeremiah 15: 16 Ezekiel 3: 1 – 3
1 Peter 2: 1 - 3

See the common factor? Food!! I love food. My favorite food? Lots!!!
Most people like food. Unfortunately, food is something that becomes a point of contention in the sub-culture scene. I am referring to the debate about meat or not, dairy products or not, animal products or not, organic only or not… Vegan, vegetarian, lacto-ovo, naturalist, carnivore…. ‘Round and ‘round it goes sometimes!

Perhaps we make too much out of what we feel is right to eat or not. Maybe we take to much time, and spend too much energy on discussing it.

Do we get as excited about God’s Word as we do food? In all of these verses, the Word of God has become the greatest joy and delight of the heart of the writers. It is what they hungered for, and couldn’t get enough of. They would take in the Word as if they were eating it to satisfy their physical hunger.

We all know for certain when we are physically hungry: Our stomach “growls”. We get weak. We get tired. We get irritated easily. But we also get spiritually hungry. The signs are harder to recognize: Our mind drifts from God. We grow weak. We fall into temptation easily. Like physical hunger, if not fed eventually, we will die spiritually.

Jesus knew the importance of feeding the soul. Read Matthew 4: 1 – 4 After 40 days of no food, Jesus was probably famished. Satan tempted him with food. But Jesus answered that God’s Word was much more important to life than the food satan was offering. Jesus was actually quoting the Word! (Deuteronomy 8: 3)

It is important to feed our soul constantly. Pray this today…

Blessed Lord, who has caused the Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning, grant that we may hear them, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them, that by the patience and comfort of your Holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which You have given us in our Savior, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen

From The Lutheran Hymnal (1941) p. 14