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Have You Any Meat? October 15, 2007 By Debbie Meyer
I was awakened this morning by a dream. Maybe it was the fact that my husband and I had talked about the pork we had in our freezer before we fell asleep last night. I don’t know, but it has stirred me deep within.
The Dream I dreamed there were people on their hands and knees, starving for food. I had meat in my hands, raw meat. I was breaking it up and giving it to them, just as a person would throw food to an animal. My heart was so torn because I didn’t have enough. They were so hungry, and I couldn’t give them enough. One lady had a piece right by her on the ground, but she didn’t see it in time and someone else got it before she could.
Someone else was sitting, cleaning gold coins, while trying to hide the coins from the others. I was upset and asked them why he couldn’t go buy food for the people. Surely we could give them more meat with the gold he had.
The Meaning I am not one who thinks every dream has a meaning, but I told a friend about the dream. She said that I have shared the Word of God boldly with people, and maybe some will be so hungry they will take it raw.
There are people in this world, I believe more than we can imagine, who are starving spiritually. They are asking us, “Have you any meat?” They don’t want to wait for us to dress it up first. They are crying out, “Just give me some meat!” They abandon all pride and are willing to crawl on their knees even for raw meat.
The Word of God Is the Meat This meat is the Word of God. God desires that we eat the meat of His Word. We live in a world today without the meat of God’s Word. Many want to dress it up and make it more fitting to their lifestyle. They don’t want to have to change their lives; they want to change the meat. But God said not one word of His will would pass away; He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His Word will not conform to anyone; we must conform to His Word.
Do we really hunger for the Word of God in our life or do we only want it as long as it doesn’t require anything of us? The Word of God, the raw truth, requires something from us. His Word feeds us, but, most of all, it changes us. You can’t digest the truth and not be changed.
Sometimes it is hard to swallow if we’re not really hungry. Sometimes the Word is hard to swallow because it challenges what we grew up believing. It challenges our present lifestyle. It doesn’t always agree with what we have always thought to be true. So it is hard to swallow. Only the truly hungry can digest those parts.
My eyes are open today to the desperation I saw on the faces of those in my dream. They wanted the meat raw.
Meat with Fillers There is a church on every street corner today. Many offer the commodities that we have come to enjoy. Padded pews, beautiful buildings, music that sounds like a heavenly choir. With all the grandeur of what they appear to offer, however, they pass out to those listening to them meat filled with fillers. It has a little bit of meat, the Word of God, mixed in with their own philosophies and religious teachings—teaching rooted in traditions of men and not in the Word of God, cooked and seasoned to taste so appetizing to those who are listening. They offer what appears to be the best, but when the people leave they still feel unsatisfied.
People have become so accustomed to being told what they want to hear and given the meat fillers, that there is no real hunger for the true meat, the undiluted Word of God. They don’t have that desperation or hunger for the truth because they have become satisfied with being unsatisfied.
Feeding the Hungry It is good to share the truth and lay a foundation for others to receive the Word of God, but there are some that don’t care if it is all laid before them like a banquet. They may not have time for us to prepare it all up and make sure it is eloquently delivered before we give it to them. We may just have to give it to them raw. They are desperate to be fed! They’re asking us the question today: “Have you any meat?”
Then there are some who already have the Word of God, sitting with their gold coins. Cleaning them and shining them. Proud of what they found. The problem is they are not sharing their wealth with those who are sitting around them starving. I don’t want to be that person!
Jesus told Peter that if he loved Him to feed His sheep. If we love Jesus, we will feed His sheep. We will tell somebody what the Lord has done for us. We will share the Gospel of His death, burial, and resurrection. We will feed them till they have repented of their sins (identifying with his death), been baptized in Jesus name (identifying with His burial), and are filled with the Holy Ghost (identifying with His resurrection).
We have gold in our hands. We have all we need to feed the lost. It is not time to sit by the side of the road and watch the hungry, starving souls crawl on their hands and knees looking for a morsel of food. It is time that we give out what has been given to us. As we feed them, God will replenish us.
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© 2007, Debbie Meyer
---------- Debbie Meyer has worked in ministry for 16 years and loves working for God. She is assisting at New Life Family Worship Center in Grapevine, Texas and met her wonderful husband on a youth on missions trip to South Africa. Trust me ladies, these trips are worth the expense! |
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