Digest Spiritual Food

8/2/1997

If we sat around on our couches all day eating good food - vegetables, fruit, and donuts :), foods that are really truly good and never did any exercise or worked any of that off, eventually someone bringing you plates full of food is just not going to be all that appealing. You know the food is good, you know it has some nutrients in it, it was prepared with love, but after a full meal, sometimes you just don’t feel like more food.

If we are not exercising in a spiritual sense the food that God is giving us, if we are not putting into practice the things we know, then more things on top of it is going to be heavy, overbearing, hard to digest, hard to find a place for it. You don’t want it to go bad, but it’s hard to find a place to put more food because we are not emptying ourselves of the food that God is giving us and not spending that energy spiritually in prayer and in service and in love and all the aspects of what it means to walk this life out in Jesus. If you are not participating in Life like that, then more food becomes an overburden and you don’t even really want to look at it. You may take a glance and push it to the side, you nibble at it, and then it becomes spoiled, just like manna. They had to eat what was given for that day and take no more. God knew that all the energy they received from that manna for that day was going to be used up for that day and they would be hungry the next morning. And when they wanted meat, they didn’t even want to see any more quail, there was so much.

The things that are supplying us are because we are trying to put into practice some of the things that have been laid before our feet in the last weeks and years. We are finding ways to put the Word of God into practice in our lives. Even an infant uses up the food that it gets by crawling around or crying. You only feed an infant so much and a certain type of food, but when they get older they start eating more solids. You don’t give an infant steak sandwiches and donuts. You give an infant milk, what it can handle. But it still uses up that supply. And it’s hungry hours later. When you are hungry, everything looks good. Have you ever gone to the supermarket when you are hungry? You pick up everything on the shelf. If you are full, then sometimes food doesn’t seem all that appealing.