Enjoy the Feast!

Drive-through windows are good especially on cold & rainy days.  Unfortunately, however, it’s sometimes hard to get anything really healthy at a drive-through.  Those mouthwatering pictures on the drive-through menu certainly don’t entice anyone to order healthy either!

A spiritually healthy heart doesn’t happen on the drive-by!  Sure, we can order products online and have them express shipped to our front door or call ahead to have prescriptions refilled for quick pickup, but there’s just no shortcuts hearts ruled by The King.  Charles Spurgeon describes the process like fruit upon the vine, “if we would have wine from it, we must bruise it; we must press and squeeze it many times.”  Just like our bodies digest food to be nourished, so must we turn over in our minds the satisfying Truths of God’s Word.  The Prophet Jeremiah said this: “Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by Your Name, O LORD, God of hosts.” (Jeremiah 15:16)  I’ve had to eat my own words many times and they weren’t very “tasty,” but the eternal words of God are delicacies to the soul of man: “More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.” (Psalm 19:10)  What a way to start every day, feasting at the LORD’s table – tasting and seeing His Goodness (Psalm 34:8) and lingering in meditation on His precepts (Psalm 119:15)  Oh, forget the drive-through … park, go in, and dine on the riches of His Presence.  Enjoy the feast!