Bon Appetite
I may have already blogged this, but Matthew 5:6 has gotten into my spirit this week: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." I was reminded again this week that what we starve must die and what we feed must grow. It's as simple as that. We don't have sin problems or holiness problems. We have hunger problems. We're too hungry for ungodly things. And we're not hungry enough for the things of God. I said to someone yesterday: if I could give a person one gift I think it might be an insatiable hunger for the things of God. I think this season of fasting is teaching me so much about appetites.
I went to the Wizards game last night and the smells were killing me! It was a mild form of torture to be fasting food and smelling the hot dogs and nachos and pizza. But it also made me realize that our appetites are something we can discipline.
I think pornography is feeding one's sexual appetite in unhealthy ways. It's a form of spiritual cholesterol than causes a hardening of the heart. I think bitterness is like eating poison. It is feeding a cancerous tumor than grows uncontrollably. I think covetousness is hunger for what's on someone else's plate! Spiritual maturity is managing our appetites!
I'm thinking in terms of appetite and hunger these days because that is the language Jesus uses in Matthew 5:6. I think reading Scripture is digesting truth. It is the way we feed our spirits. If we are hungering for the wrong thing it's because we're not full on Scripture. By the way, Scripture comes in lots of different flavors! I think there is a Scripture to feed every appetite! Bon Appetite!
What do you need to starve?
What do you need to feed?
I went to the Wizards game last night and the smells were killing me! It was a mild form of torture to be fasting food and smelling the hot dogs and nachos and pizza. But it also made me realize that our appetites are something we can discipline.
I think pornography is feeding one's sexual appetite in unhealthy ways. It's a form of spiritual cholesterol than causes a hardening of the heart. I think bitterness is like eating poison. It is feeding a cancerous tumor than grows uncontrollably. I think covetousness is hunger for what's on someone else's plate! Spiritual maturity is managing our appetites!
I'm thinking in terms of appetite and hunger these days because that is the language Jesus uses in Matthew 5:6. I think reading Scripture is digesting truth. It is the way we feed our spirits. If we are hungering for the wrong thing it's because we're not full on Scripture. By the way, Scripture comes in lots of different flavors! I think there is a Scripture to feed every appetite! Bon Appetite!
What do you need to starve?
What do you need to feed?
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