All You Can Eat!

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The poor have a hard life, but being content is as good
as an endless feast.

It’s better to obey the Lord and have only a little,
than to be very rich
and terribly confused.

A simple meal with love is better than a feast
where there is hatred.

Proverbs 15:15-17

I think it started with a church "pot luck" dinner, an "all you can eat" salad bar, or it may have been a community "fish fry" where you could come back for more until you were full. Now there are lots of places to eat all you want for "one low price!"

God created our bodies and He provides the food for us to eat so that we can stay healthy and strong. But eating more than you need, or the wrong kind of food has serious, sometimes very serious consequences. If your activity and exercise level does not at least match the calories of the food you ingest extra weight is added to your body every day. It may come on slowly, but finally becomes a terrible burden.

What about "spiritual food?" When we consume the Word of God it is truly an "all you can eat" buffet. The physical man cannot handle too much food. The physical body just gets fat and burdened down. When the spiritual man eats from God's Word he gets stronger with every bite. I have never heard a man of God say that he needs to take in less spiritual food. The Devil will tell you that you are "going too far" with Jesus. He will try to get you to cut back on your intake of the Word of God. He will have a thousand "good" reasons why you are becoming a fanatic and should at least slow down on your consumption of the things of God!

If you want to gain weight all you have to do is eat more and more often. The pounds will begin to appear every day. If you want to become a spiritual heavy weight the process is the same. All you need to do is consume more of God's Word and do it more often. Your spiritual body mass will increase everyday!

The delightful truth is that no one can eat too much of the Word of God! Enjoy!