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Eat Mor Chikin

Do you have a favorite restaurant that you think you could eat at every single day and never get tired of the food? Or has there ever been a time when the food you were eating was so good that you just couldn’t stop eating it, whether it was healthy or not? Personally, in ties with the title of this week, I think Chick-Fil-A is somewhere I could eat everyday and not get tired of their food. Fast food probably is not the best option for your everyday life, most of it is fried and greasy; while there are healthy options in most fast food restaurants, let’s be real, we don’t go to McDonalds or KFC if we want a Salad.

Much like the nutrition that our bodies need everyday, our spiritual life also needs nutrition to grow and to be healthy. If we are “feeding” ourselves with what the world has to offer yet calling ourselves followers of Jesus, our spiritual life and our relationships with Jesus are not going to be healthy. There are good and bad ways to feed your spiritual life, just like there are good and bad foods to feed your physical body. Sometimes the worst way to feed your relationship with Jesus is to not eat at all, meaning that you neglect your quiet time or instead of praying about a problem, you go to what other people would say first. This will leave you starving in your relationship with Jesus, with no healthy habits and routines of getting into God’s Word or spending personal time with Jesus, eventually your relationship with Him will become malnourished and you will feel distant from God.

The truth is, without God you will always be looking for more, hungering for more, and left unsatisfied. Putting all the food analogies and metaphors aside, if you are not intentional with what you flood your mind and time with, the world will be where you look and not to Jesus. While what everyone else is doing and living by the phrase “go with the flow” seems simple and enticing at first, this mindset that is so common today will leave you empty. Only through Jesus we have life and only by having a relationship with Him will we ever live life to the fullest. It is easy to fall into what everyone else is consuming at first because it seems harmless but this is exactly how the enemy catches your attention and then you will always be wanting more. Jesus wants to offer you life and not the junk food this world has to offer. God’s Word is a well-balanced meal which is why it is so important that we consume it as much as possible.

This week, we will be studying examples of how only God can truly satisfy our needs. My prayer is that your eyes will be opened to the fleeting satisfaction of the world and the full contentment that is found in Jesus.