The average American consumes somewhere in the neighborhood of 500-1500 extra calories a day. We are getting nearly one-third of our calories from junk foods: soft drinks, sweets, desserts, alcoholic beverages, and salty snacks. That is a result of years of marketing, telling people that more is better. Why settle for a single cheese burger when you could have a double cheese burger and large fries and a large drink for only 50 cents more. Wow what a bargain!
The result is a fat America. Obesity is through the roof, childhood Diabetes is at an all time high in our youth and shows no sign of slowing down.
The other end of this is the increase in Anorexia in young women. The pressure to fit in and look a certain way drives many young women into a nightmarish life of eating and starving themselves.
Think about it, what if you only allowed yourself to eat once a week, and when you did eat, you ate a diet that filled your stomach but had no nutritional value. To make things worse you could only have one type of a drink, always the same flavor, over and over, never anything new.
Sound pretty bleak. Unless your body is fed a balanced and nutritional diet you are going to either get fat or sick. You may not die from this kind of diet, at least not right away but you will never be the healthy strong person you could be.
No one wants to live a life on the kinds of diets described above, so why is it OK to Spiritually feed ourselves in this manner.
Think about it, we go to church once a week, are you eating spiritually?
Are you starving by time you get to church, or are you starving yourself?
Has it been so long since you sat down and ate a spiritual meal that you are afraid to even try to ate again? Have you forgotten the taste of God?
Prayer is the doorway to your relationship with God.
1 Thessalonians 5: 17 says "Pray without stopping". God is never to busy to listen to you, he is always there waiting to hear you call out to Him. Their is no question he can not answer, their is nothing he can't help you with.
God is always ready for you. Right now He would love to hear from you. Why wait.
This week don't wait to be filled with the power and presence of God. Make God a daily part of your day and watch how your spiritual life flourishes.
The Holy Spirit nourishes us in a way that nothing else can. He is like a spiritual liquid, every day it is vital to our lives that we drink plenty of Spiritual liquid. Everything just works better.
Matt. 6:33 "Seek first the Kingdom of God and all His righteousness and all these things will be added to our life."
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