SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT by N. Y. Christian Advocate

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 22, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 12.

SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT.

By N. Y. Christian Advocate

WE cannot work successfully for the Master without this. The table is richly supplied with convenient food; the wellspring of life affords ample supplies to quench the burning thirst. The welcome is most hearty; it is to every soul, and is accompanied with the assurance that no one is so poor that he cannot "buy," because this refreshment is "without money and without price."

Since our ability to render acceptable service depends upon buying "wine and milk" so freely offered, and since an abundant provision is within the reach of all, and is offered upon such easy conditions, why will anyone prefer a life of spiritual impoverishment? At God's table there is "bread enough and to spare." Why will we perish with hunger?

Many see the folly of this unsatisfactory mode of living, but are overcome by the world, the flesh, and the devil. The rich repast is just at hand, but evil forces restrain them from partaking. These forces are both within and without the soul; and are sleepless in their activity. The better judgment is captured; the struggling will is overborne; the sensibilities are paralyzed by these implacable enemies; the soul is left by the highway to die, starving, wounded, and forsaken.

Nothing will recover these souls save Jesus the Christ. He speaks into their ears, so dull of hearing, and says: "Come unto me for sustenance. Thy Father giveth you the true bread from heaven; for the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world." "Lord, evermore give us this bread." May this be the beseeching cry of famishing, perishing souls.