w-cutout-large-1-250-webWilrens is one of the people that we look to as a leader in our European Biblical Studies community. His input into our lives challenges us in many ways and one of the ways he inputs into our lives is by his website: http://www.wilrens.org/

Recently he posted about feeding ourselves spiritually:

What do you do to feed yourself spiritually?

There is an unfortunate downside to asking this question. Too many of us respond with feelings of guilt. In a way, this is a strange reaction. Most of us will have dinner tonight. Let’s assume that for some reason we forget or simply don’t get around to it. How would that make us feel? Guilty? Or hungry?

I don’t know about you, but I don’t do breakfast or lunch so I have fulfilled a duty or an obligation. I do it because I am hungry, because I need energy for the day, and, well, because I like to eat. It does happen that I forget a meal. Sometimes I get so caught up in what I am doing that I lose all sense of time. At two or three in the afternoon Franziska (my wife) comes home and asks me if I had had lunch yet. The immediate result is that I feel my appetite – not guilt.

So why do I feel differently when I forget to spend time with God? It cannot be his reaction. Whenever I have knocked on his door after missing one or more appointments, I never walked into an atmosphere of offended reproach. I actually felt welcomed and loved.

Apparently, we don’t sense our spiritual appetites as keenly as our natural ones. It therefore does take a bit more effort and “intentionality”, to use the new buzzword, to stay in shape spiritually. But we do need that intake or we will be weak and ineffective. Busy perhaps, possibly impressively so, but not truly fruitful…continued here

I was challenged reading this, especially being so busy on home assignment, but at the same time hungry for more! Lord meet me as I spend time in your Word!