Soul nourishment first - by George Muller
It has pleased the Lord to teach me a truth, the benefit of which I have not lost, for more than 14 years. The point is this; I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was to have my soul happy in the Lord.The first thing to be concerned about was not how much I might serve the Lord, or how much I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished..... I saw the most important thing to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God, and to meditate on it, that thus my heart might be comforted, encouraged, warned, reproved, instructed; and that thus, by means of the Word of God, while meditating on it, my heart might be brought into experimental communion with the Lord,
Jeremiah 15:16 "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart"