Are You Starved or Stuffed?

Having lived in Singapore for a few years, I loved this story in a devotional about a local hotel that introduced an express buffet. They decided to offer a 30 minute, all-you-can-eat luncheon for half the price. After that experience, one diner reported: "I lost my decorum, stuffing my mouth with yet more food.  I lost my civility... and I lost my appetite for the rest of the day, so severe was my heartburn."

It makes my stomach hurt just to imagine stuffing my mouth and stomach till I feel ill!  But let me share with you the spiritual application from the January lst, Daily Bread.  The author writes:

"Sometimes I think in our devotional reading we treat God's Word like an express buffet.  We wolf it down as fast as we can and wonder why we haven't learned very much.  Like physical food, spiritual food needs chewing! For those of us who have been Christians for a long time, we may have a tendency to speed-read through the passages we've read many times before.  But in doing so, we miss what God is meaning to show us.  One sure sign of this is when we learn nothing new from that passage.

Let's not come to the Bible as if we were going to an express buffet.  Only by meditating on God's Word will we get the most value for our spiritual well-being."

Stop for a second and ask yourself some questions we all need to ask for time to time:

• Do I starve myself and only nibble occasionally on God's Word--or do I stuff it in by speed-reading with my mind somewhere else? 
• What value do I gain from my time in Scripture?  
• Am I getting spiritually FATTER or THINNER as my life goes by? 

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