Two friends chanced to meet on the street one day. One said to the other, “Friend, how is it with your soul?” His friend replied, “You know, I’ve been so busy lately I had almost forgotten that I had a soul.”
In the early 18th century, the Church of England was spiritually dead. Thomas Carlyle described the period as “soul extinct, stomach well alive.”
That’s very much the way it is in our day. Jesus warned us, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). Jesus was saying that we are more than flesh and blood. There is something to us that meat and potatoes cannot satisfy. We must feed the inner person. The word of God is the original soul food and the one who neglects it is destined to become weak and anemic spiritually.
If you want strength to face the temptations, the pressures, and the crises of life, you must feed the inner person with a daily diet of the word of God. Jesus said, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:4). God’s word alone can satisfy your greatest hunger. Study your Bible and you’ll be strengthening the inner person.