Happy New Year! God has richly blessed us this past year and
will continue to bless us in the ones to come.
This New Year I wanted to take
this first 2014 Wednesday Weekly and dedicate it to an old post; in remembrance
of the blessings of year past and the ones still to come.
You’re not hungry when you’re full.
A picky
eater simply isn't hungry enough; personally, I can recall countless
times when I was driving down the highway, extremely selective in regards to
where I planned on stopping to eat. This was because my belly was
reasonably full, even Chick-Fil-A was not alluring enough to cause me to pull
over. However, as the hours wore on and the hunger began to grow, I
finally came to the place where “the next fast food joint was fine with
me.”
“The
full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is
sweet.” –Proverbs 27:7
It is vital that our spiritual man remains well feed. I am firmly
convinced that many, many people today begin well with God. They find a
powerful witness that testifies to the fact that he has surly worked a mighty
work in their lives. However, by and by we as people become“carful
and cumbered about many things.” (Luke 10:41) The devil has a way
of making the most meaningless things seem of the UTMOST importance. “You
must deal with this NOW.” He tells us. “You are missing out on all
the fun!” He often proclaims. When in reality, the laundry can
wait. You don’t HAVE to watch the game. The fast-pace, instant,
“streaming”, live, now, now, now, world that we live in today may have its
perks when it comes to standard of living; but how much does it do for our
Spiritual lives? Let’s face it; Google is not going to tell you how to
defeat the devil. We see the masses filling their lives with the manna of
the world and wonder why their soul hungers. We say to ourselves: “I
can’t believe he would do that.” “I can’t believe they would leave their:
church, wife/husband, kids; just up and walk away from God after all these
years.” Well, no wonder, to the “hungry
soul every bitter thing is sweet.” Would you agree?
The gospel still stands the same. The Bible does not need me to prop it
up, but that does not mean I don’t need to get behind it. The same God
that made us will keep us, if we keep him first. However, the Word says
that we must be diligent about it. (2 Peter 1) We must keep our Spirit
well feed, with that which sustains; reading your Bible, praying, church going,
testifying, obeying, abstaining, reading your Bible, reading your Bible, and
reading some more. God help us to spend less time feeding on that
which does not fill, and more time consuming that which will sustain, because
you’re not hungry when you’re full.
“4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.” –
John 15:4
