Craving Spaghetti and Meatballs!

 

Do you ever get FOOD CRAVINGS? 

My favorite meal is spaghetti and meatballs. There are times I CRAVE that meal. Fortunately, I have an awesome wife who knows about my cravings after 47 years and it is on the menu quite often. Being a DIABETIC I also crave SUGAR, usually in the form of ICE CREAM. That craving is not healthy, but it is real. I love the medicine I am on right now because it really CURBS my UNHEALTHY CRAVINGS.

Besides food there are other things people crave. Many of our cravings can turn into unhealthy obsessions. Sin can have that affect on people. In 1 Peter we are told about CRAVING SPIRITUAL MILK.

"So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech. Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord's kindness." (1 Peter 2:1-3)

I love BABY CHRISTIANS. They are so eager to learn more and more and more. Every piece of scripture is a NEW ADVENTURE. They crave more insight, more knowledge, more wisdom. But, in the book of Hebrews we are told that SOMETIMES people get STUCK on BABIES MILK and never progress. They never grow beyond the basics of faith. 

"There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don't seem to listen. You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God's word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn't know how to do what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference bertween right and wrong." (Hebrews 5:11-14)

Every time I read that scripture, I feel convicted, especially the part about being spiritually dull. YIKES!

ARE YOU GROWING in your faith? DO YOU CRAVE to GROW and to get into the MEAT of a LIFE with CHRIST? Sometimes we are so wrapped up in making disciples, bringing new Christians into the faith, we often forget that we who have been faithful for years, ALSO NEED TO GROW. We never stop learning and we should CRAVE to continually hear from the Lord, through Scripture, HIS WORD, Worship, and other faithful followers. If we have LOST that craving, we become spiritually DULL. 

I have to admit I went through a time of DULLNESS. But, now, I just cannot get enough of JESUS. I want to eat, sleep, talk, share, and live for Jesus. BUT, probably my GREATEST CRAVING right now is MAKING DISCIPLES. I want OTHERS to experience my CRAVING. 

I want you to all CRAVE SPAGHETTI and MEATBALLS! LOL! 

I guess that is why I am here in NEW CASTLE, INDIANA. I want to feed new believers SPIRITUAL MILK, and I want to provide SPIRITUAL MEAT for those who are just now growing beyond the basic milk of the faith.

LORD, FILL ME WITH YOUR SPIRIT that I might be a vessel to satisfy the CRAVINGS of a lost world and feed MEAT to the  hearts of your people! AMEN!