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Hungry?

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The other morning I put breakfast on the table and called our son.  He did not come so I called him again.  He still did not come.  Now I wondered if he had eaten something that I did not know about.  I began to look and could not find any evidence where he had already eaten anything.

I went to his room and told him breakfast was ready.  Sometimes he gets focused on his movie in his room and does not hear me.  Other days he is just being funny and waits until I get to his room and begins to laugh as he goes past me to the kitchen.

This time I think there is something going on in the atmosphere that is effecting him negatively.  Nearly an hour later he comes to breakfast and it is obvious now that he is having a difficult day.  Thankfully, he did eat.

As I thought about him not eating his breakfast I thought about Christians who do not eat spiritually.  What I mean is that we do not read our Bible on a regular basis.  We do not spend time in private prayer.  We have left off personal worship.  This is spiritually the same as what took place physically at our house.

If our son had not eaten he would have become weak.  If he had continued not eating he would have eventually died (in an extreme situation).  The spiritual life is the same.  If we continue to forsake the things that feed us spiritually we will become weak and powerless.  I love the example in Jeremiah 15:16, “Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.”  I want my desire to be like Jeremiah’s.  Do you love God’s Word?  I really hope that you do.

So, how are you doing?

The Sluggard

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There are days that I don’t have the energy to hardly get out of bed.  I do because my family counts on me to wake up and perform certain tasks like make breakfast.

I see in our nation that we are becoming a nation of sluggards both physically and spiritually.  I remember when I was in school I was given the privilege of having my own telephone line in my room.  As  young person I was on the phone all the time (my family thought literally).  I remember one time I called the other line in the house and asked my mother for a glass of water.  I was laughing so hard that I could hardly do it.  I was truly joking; but, I don’t know that they believed me.

The other day my wife as having a conversation with someone who is a Church going person.  This person expressed that they did not know that the Bible talked about ants.  I told her that they needed to read the Bible to not only learn about the ant; but, to learn the habits of the ant.  If we would be spiritually like the ant then we would not find ourselves in such a place.  Look at Proverbs 6:6, “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:”

Now it comes down to you and I are we spiritual sluggards?  What is our attitude toward the Word of God?  I want to be so familiar with the Word of God that It simply flows out of me.

So, how are you doing?