A Diet For Eternity Series

Neither will we walk by the Spirit and be used by God.

In the world, and even in the church, there are people wandering around the desert like the children of Israel.

They are searching for the “manna” – looking for tangible bread to meet their needs.

Remember what manna means? “What is it?”

What is it that will meet your needs?

That is the question of the ages.

Many cry out to the Lord, “give me this or that and I will be satisfied”

Yet after getting what they want, their satisfaction is just temporary.

Just like a child with a toy they have grown accustomed to, they discard it and look for something else to fill the void.

What do we do? How do we fill this void?

Action Steps:

Choose to come to Jesus.

Many of us believe in Him but we don’t come to Him.

"I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.

The passage from John speaks of believing in Him and coming to Him.

The act of belief is drinking from Him.

But the act of coming to Him is how we feed spiritually.

We drink from the rock but we don’t feed daily on what He has to offer, the bread of life, which is Himself.

How do we come to Him?

Coming to Him in prayer, sitting before His feet, listening to Him through His word and through what I call contemplative prayer (sitting quietly and listening to praise songs and letting your heart rise to adore Him).

Journaling and listening.

Worshipping Him.

Obeying His still small voice.

How much time do you spend “coming to Jesus?”

Come daily to Jesus.

Just as the manna had to be gathered daily, Jesus told his disciples to pray, “give us this day our DAILY bread.”

We must come to Him daily for our spiritual needs and sustenance.

I saw a sign that said, “7 days without Jesus makes one weak”.

Choose to be deliberate in what you consume.

Not just in physical consummation but those things that have spiritual effects as well.

I want to challenge you to do something that may be difficult for most of us here.

We all consume (fill our lives) with stuff that has absolutely no spiritually nutritional value.

Its only purpose is to quiet the spiritual hunger in us.

For some of us it may be those 2 or three beers you “gotta” have when you come home from work.

For others, it may be that high you feel you gotta have to numb the pain and boredom you feel.

You are only numbing the spiritual hunger pains with the spiritual equivalent of sawdust.

You are starving spiritually!

Others of us consume (fill our lives) with stuff that has no spiritual value either.

It has the EFFECT of junk food, it cancels the hunger, it shouts down the cry of our hearts, and it makes us feel a bit better for just a little while.

For many of us here that is the television, video games, maybe romance novels, busyness, or even extra long hours at work.

The average American spends 20 or more hours a week in front of the television.

And then they stumble into bed to get up and go through the same mind-numbing routine of a day as the day before.

I want to challenge everyone here to awaken your spiritual hunger pains this week by turning off the television for the entire week. Turning off the computer for the entire week. Come home on time from work for an entire week.