Nourishing the Spirit Get’s Us Somewhere in the Middle

Do you know that our Spirits need nourishment?  They need the time to grow.  They need time to heal when times are rough. Think of it this way, even God took a vacation.  Remember, every seventh year have Jubilee. That is a whole year of vacation! We in today’s world consider it a blessing to get seven days in a row. Yet, there are times we really and truly need it.  This is why.

Galatians 5:22-26 KJV – But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

If we don’t, can’t keep these in mind, it’s time for a vacation. It doesn’t matter if it’s a “working” vacation. You can do a little just to stave off the boredom. But, in truth, we need that rest. That is why we have the seventh day, Sabbath, the seventh year, Jubilee, and Easter.

Do you remember when we were speaking about the Gospel of John and we saw these words? The Gospel of John 15:5 KJV – I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

It is not always easy to walk in His footprints, or beside them, either one. Yet, so long as we carry Him in our hearts, we can overcome those seven pains in everyone’s earthly life, vanity, envy, lust, enmity, wrath, shame, and doubt. We have spoken of these seven so much we should know them by heart. You’ve heard the ideal of keeping our thoughts to ourselves.

The reason we should do just that, unless they are thoughts for the greater good, would be that we keep those seven tame. In other words, setting them loose only makes things worse than they are already. This is something everyone does. Even the ministers that are there for us can indeed let those seven break loose and, well, you know what that can do.

This summer, for example. I haven’t written more than a few sermons, a few studies, as opposed to putting them up all the time. Sometimes we, quite literally, need to take the time to keep our thoughts to ourselves, to recuperate, to bring our thoughts back to where they should be. This isn’t just for ministers. It is for all of us. It’s why those who work for a paycheck would get some sort of vacation, the weekend, those precious seven, fourteen, or twenty-one days in the corporate world, or the twelve that teachers would, in some ways, consider a blessing. Think about it as you see there are ways to be somewhere in the middle.

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~Shalom~

Rev. Laura A. Neff ~The Rainbow Minister

Calvin Jennings ~ Elder

Covenant of Hope Ministries
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