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Today's Early Church Wisdom
“I shall not hesitate also to put into ordered form for you, along with the interpretations, everything I learned carefully in the past from the elders and noted down carefully, for the truth of which I vouch. For unlike most people, I took no pleasure in those who told many different stories, but only in those who taught the truth. Nor did I take pleasure in those who reported their memory of someone else’s commandments, but only in those who reported their memory of the commandments given by the Lord to the faith and proceeding from the Truth itself. And if by chance anyone who had been in attendance on the elders arrived, I made enquiries about the words of the elders—what Andrew or Peter had said, or Philip or Thomas or James or John or Matthew or any other of the Lord’s disciples, and whatever Aristion and John the Elder, the Lord’s disciples, were saying. For I did not think that information from the books would profit me as much as information from a living and surviving voice.
~ Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60–130 AD) From the Preface to his lost ‘Expositions of the Sayings of the Lord’
This week's Psalm is Psalm 31 'My Rock, My Shield, My Song'

Don't Forget to Eat

Your spiritual diet

For the majority of us there is little likelihood that we will forget to eat physical food. We are surrounded by advertising and media messages tempting us to eat all kinds of things. But the same is not true of spiritual hunger, and there is always a danger that we may neglect our spiritual diet. Jesus said a number of things on this subject. On one occasion, when His disciples were concerned that He hadn't had a physical meal, He said, "I have food to eat of which you do not know" (John 4:32). He went on to explain: "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me" (John 4:34). How is your spiritual diet? In His wilderness confrontation with Satan, Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4). To the extent that we listen to Jesus and follow His guidance we'll be spiritually strong and healthy. Don't forget to eat!