Food For Thought
We’re shifting into that season where we become a little more food-conscious, aren’t we? Sometimes that’s not such a bad thing.
The other day I had to grab dinner for two of my teens on the way to a youth function at church. We didn’t even have time for fast food. We were past that. So I took them to (should I really admit this?)...the gas station. I told them to try to grab something that looked like it might have protein in it. Allie got peanut butter crackers and a tube of Pringles. Daniel got a jug of chocolate milk and some Nutter Butter cookies. “Mother of the Year” award? I’m not holding my breath for that one.
After I dropped them off, I was thinking about their dinner and I got this visual of them sitting around chatting with their peers, and one of their friends saying something like, “My mom makes the best chicken cacciatore you ever tasted.” Another could chime in, “Yeah, well no one can beat my mom’s lemon chiffon pie.” My kids? They would have to say something like, “Okay, but no one can put together a Texaco dinner like my mom.” Or even worse, what if they said, “Hey, the way my mom fixes dinner, we can eat and get gas at the same time.”
Disturbing.
It’s too easy to find myself looking for dinner in all the wrong places. But I want to stay away from foolish choices and consistently choose wisely when it comes to being fed spiritually. Proverbs 15:14 says, “The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly” (NIV). Feeding on folly is a worse cuisine disaster than a peanut butter and Pringles casserole. Pa-too-ey!
Where does knowledge and real spiritual nourishment come from? It comes from the real truth found in God’s Word. Psalm 119:103-104 says, “How sweet Your word is to my taste—sweeter than honey to my mouth. I gain understanding from Your precepts” (HCSB).
I’m making it a goal to try to aim for wisdom when it comes to spiritual nourishment.
Wisdom, not foolishness. Or fuelishness.
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