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How Hungry Are You?
By Theresa HuffWith today's emphasis on healthy eating, why is it that fast food or soul food or comfort food--with all that fat, calories, and added cholesterol--sounds so much better than green veggies and tofu? The sound of red beans and rice cooked with ham and served with a side of heavily buttered cornbread sounds so much better than grilled chicken and steamed vegetables. Healthwise that's not so! Even though we tend to lean toward all the “extras,” to be healthy there is a balance we need to maintain--and likely some things we need to sacrifice. This is not our idea of fun, but it can become a necessity. It can become a life or death situation.
It's like spiritual hunger. How often do we feel a
deep hunger to read God's word and eat from His table? How many times
have you felt that you must hear from Him immediately? It is easy to
find time for the other, less important things in our lives and think we
will get to the meat of His word “right after I finish doing this.” Spiritual Nutrition To even things out with the meat of the Word, we
should be sure to add the freshness of the fruit of the spirit
(Galatians 5:22). Pretty hard to live up to, right? If you are like me, I sometimes want to eat dessert first so that if I get full too quickly, I will have already had the best. For us dessert lovers there comes the sweetness of His communion with us (Psalms 119: 102-104).
Regardless of what we are hungry for today, our
appetites can be satisfied by studying His Word. As humans we don't
always like what we eat (i.e., liver, which I would have to receive by
IV), so we may not always hunger for the right things spiritually.
However, God knows what we need long before we do (Romans 8:26), and our
lives will be enriched and our hearts uplifted if we choose a
spiritually balanced meal. If we hunger for the things of God and feed our spiritual bodies from His Word, we will remain healthy and live!
© 2006, Theresa Huff --------- |
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