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“A person who is full refuses honey, but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry.” —Proverbs 27:7
”A person who strays from home is like a bird that strays from its nest.” —Proverbs 27:8
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One of the most well-known brand name of potato chips, Lays, sells 372 million bags every year. Chips sell universally well because people like their taste, enjoy the convenience, and when on-the-go, need a quick pick-me-up.
Hungry people are not necessarily picky people. They will consume the nearest snack on hand.
Hungry and hurried people are even less particular. They will ravenously devour anything to halt their stomach pangs.
Hungry, hurried, and unhappy people often find themselves in even more dire straits. They will gratify their famished appetite with food detrimental to their physical and spiritual health.
When we are full, we don’t need non-essential foods because our stomach has no more room. But when we are hungry and in a state of internal need, we will satiate ourselves in pleasures, with people, and of pastimes that draw us away from God. Even bitter food then tastes sweet to the hungry.
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Our reach. What we reach for matters to God. Our appetite. What we choose as our spiritual nourishment matters to God.
Our spiritual life is a tension of being filled with the things of God and the things of this world.
Our spiritual appetite is a balance of eating good spiritual food and unhealthy spiritual junk food.
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Picture this. Advertisements for spiritual junk food. In between the breaks and meals of life.
Sanctioning our eyes to see things that appeal to our flesh. Spiritual junk food.
Permitting our feet to wander away from a foundation in God. Spiritual junk food.
Allowing our hands to reach for relationships not centered on God. Spiritual junk food.
Letting our brain processes gravitate to cognitive thoughts not glorifying to God. Spiritual junk food.
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When physically hungry, we don’t necessarily consider carefully what we ingest. Our goal is for immediate gratification.
When spiritually hungry, we may give Satan a foothold to establish a stronghold in our lives. Our hunger results in weakened defenses and a vulnerability that can lead to sin.
Consequently, when we are spiritually lacking, we often stray from our home to find something else to fill us up, find contentment in, and close that empty void in our soul.
Like a bird that wanders from its nest, we leave our spiritual home where Jesus is our priority and first love, to find inferior priorities and lesser loves.
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Being full in Christ means we don’t need anything of this world to satisfy our soul and make us whole. Be filled with God’s words and refresh yourself with divine food that wont leave you wanting worldly, short-term snacks and unhealthy, spiritual junk food.
Be overwhelmingly full in the Real Truth.