TGIF Greetings; May you all be violently overtaken with a spirit of joy!!!!!
We will go through all kinds of stuff to satisfy our desire for food. There’s an ice cream parlor inDavie
When I was preggers with Hormone, I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night with an intense desire to eat grape jelly and cream cheese on a bagel. Groggy Jorge stumbled out to get it, but that’s not even a gross craving compared to one I heard of: Banana sandwiches with mayonnaise and onions.
Food is yummy, it nourishes the body, and can even put you in a good mood. Chocolate anyone?
And haven't we have all said, “I’m starving!” Our gullets rumble or we feel faint, and we know it’s time to fuel our bodies. Let’s face it: If we stop eating altogether, we will, you know, expire.
As critical to life as eating is, the Lord reminds us in Matthew 4:4 “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Another version says it like this: “It takes more than bread to stay alive. It takes a steady stream of words from God’s mouth.”
In other words, when God says in 1 Peter 2:2 to “desire God’s pure word as babies desire milk,” He is essentially saying that to stay alive we must feed our body AND soul, and we must be as enthusiastic about eating up His truths from the Bible as we are about eating up a hot fudge sundae with two scoops of chocolate chip mint ice cream, sprinkled with butterfingers and whipped cream on top.
The questions are why and how?
Let’s chew on this over the weekend.
PRAYER: Dear Lord, We all have a favorite food, and we are grateful for the blessings of being able enjoy several good meals a day. We also desire the beauty, peace, protection, hope, faith, wisdom, and guidance in our lives that comes from living on Your Word. But please give us a hunger for You that we might grow even bigger and stronger in our faith. In Jesus’ name, AMEN~
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