Taste the Goodness of the Lord

On many occasions when I feel like the day is not going well,I just open up scripture and read the gospels. As I read my soul feels as though it is being fed the grace of God with every word read. It is as if i am being filled with spiritual food. It reinvigorates my soul granting me zeal and faith in the Lord that before that point wouldn’t have been imaginable. It sometimes feels akin to the times when I was a child and my mother would feed me. If i allow my mother to feed me instead of resisting I qon’t have a hard time, but if I resist i become grumpy and irritable. So it is with reading scripture or any spiritual book. On a bad day reading scripture doesn’t sound like a great idea; in fact when you start to read it may even feel like a burden, but on those bad days reading scripture might just be the one thing that will help you.

On our bad days, being consistent in our prayers or, if you don’t pray much, deciding to pray can really help build your spiritual strength and zeal. Your soul is affected by the state of your body, whether you be sick, moody, decisive, etc. On day like these our soul needs help which transcends the feeling of our body. Sometimes we forget the need for spiritual food, going days on end without actually spending time with God in prayer or meditation, and when the bad days come we wallow in our sorrows and end up lacking the hope, faith, and divine wisdom needed to go through our trials. This is the time when God, in his infinite wisdom, chooses to grow quiet and work in our souls, planting grace and sprouting want for Him and holiness.

When you despair or grew weary read the word of God because though your body may be weak, that doesn’t mean you soul has to as well.

“Watch and pray that you will

not fall into temptation.

The spirit is willing, but

the body is weak”

(Mark 14:38)