ARE YOU HEALTHY

Are you healthy?

Are you well fed or well-nourished or both?

Some believe you have to be well-fed to be well-nourished and others believe as long as you are well fed your ok.

And still, others believe eating the right things is good enough.

Who’s to say until you go to the doctor and your blood is checked.

The Christian is checked by the word of God it is what we live by. It does not matter your denomination or sect of Christianity you belong to. The Word of God is our foundation.

In John 4: Jesus is talking to a woman by a well and the discussion is about where to worship God and the spirit and truth of God. And this is what the bible says.

John 4: 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria.

5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” 15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.” 19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

Spanish~

Juan 4: 3 Dejó á Judea, y fuése otra vez á Galilea.

4 Y era menester que pasase por Samaria.

5 Vino, pues, á una ciudad de Samaria que se llamaba Sichâr, junto á la heredad que Jacob dió á José su hijo.

6 Y estaba allí la fuente de Jacob. Pues Jesús, cansado del camino, así se sentó á la fuente. Era como la hora de sexta.

7 Vino una mujer de Samaria á sacar agua: y Jesús le dice: Dame de beber. 8 (Porque sus discípulos habían ido á la ciudad á comprar de comer.) 9 Y la mujer Samaritana le dice: ¿Cómo tú, siendo Judío, me pides á mí de beber, que soy mujer Samaritana? porque los Judíos no se tratan con los Samaritanos. 10 Respondió Jesús y díjole: Si conocieses el don de Dios, y quién es el que te dice: Dame de beber: tú pedirías de él, y él te daría agua viva. 11 La mujer le dice: Señor, no tienes con qué sacar la, y el pozo es hondo: ¿de dónde, pues, tienes el agua viva? 12 ¿Eres tú mayor que nuestro padre Jacob, que nos dió este pozo, del cual él bebió, y sus hijos, y sus ganados? 13 Respondió Jesús y díjole: Cualquiera que bebiere de esta agua, volverá á tener sed; 14 Mas el que bebiere del agua que yo le daré, para siempre no tendrá sed: mas el agua que yo le daré, será en él una fuente de agua que salte para vida eterna.

15 La mujer le dice: Señor, dame esta agua, para que no tenga sed, ni venga acá á sacar la. 16 Jesús le dice: Ve, llama á tu marido, y ven acá. 17 Respondió la mujer, y dijo: No tengo marido. Dícele Jesús: Bien has dicho, No tengo marido; 18 Porque cinco maridos has tenido: y el que ahora tienes no es tu marido; esto has dicho con verdad.

19 Dícele la mujer: Señor, paréceme que tú eres profeta.

20 Nuestros padres adoraron en este monte, y vosotros decís que en Jerusalem es el lugar donde es necesario adorar. 21 Dícele Jesús: Mujer, créeme, que la hora viene, cuando ni en este monte, ni en Jerusalem adoraréis al Padre. 22 Vosotros adoráis lo que no sabéis; nosotros adoramos lo que sabemos: porque la salud viene de los Judíos. 23 Mas la hora viene, y ahora es, cuando los verdaderos adoradores adorarán al Padre en espíritu y en verdad; porque también el Padre tales adoradores busca que adoren. 24 Dios es Espíritu; y los que le adoran, en espíritu y en verdad es necesario que adoren.

25 Dícele la mujer: Sé que el Mesías ha de venir, el cual se dice el Cristo: cuando él viniere nos declarará todas las cosas. 26 Dícele Jesús: Yo soy, que hablo contigo.

I want to focus on verses 23 and 24 Jesus said

23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

If you worship in truth alone, the word of God your only are well fed. And if you are only dwelling on the spirit but do not read the word of God you may be deceived.

In verse 23 the infuses is placed on a destination a place. Perhap you are like I was as a new believer and thought all other churches are wrong except the one I went to. Worship is not a destination or place.

To worship in spirit means you are concerned with spiritual realities, not so much with places or outward sacrifices, cleansings, and trappings.

To worship in truth means you worship according to the whole counsel of God’s word, especially in light of the New Testament revelation. It also means that you come to God in truth, not in pretense or a mere display of spirituality.

Spirit alone is not healthy either

I have a friend who received the gift of tongues and believes but he does not know the word and he believes he is fine.

We need balance in our life.

Make Jesus the center of your life and He will provide the balance.