Junk Food.

O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him. Psalm 34:8

When I’m on the road one of my biggest temptations is junk food. Traveling disrupts my routine and makes it easier to select from the wide range of fast food and pre-packaged options available anywhere you look. In order to find a good salad while traveling in Georgia, I went to a Publix grocery store. The volume of food available, the number of prepared food options and the way the food was displayed let me know that Southerners take their food seriously. If eating were an Olympic sport this certainly would be where you would scout for talent. I made a small but complete salad at the salad bar while an older gentleman watched me. When I finished and started to make my way to a check-out lane he said to me: “I tried to eat like that. Eating that just makes you hungry!” As Christians, we need to be aware of the dangers of a steady diet of empty entertainment, conversation and activities that can leave us lazy, uninvolved and ineffective.
David had just been delivered from a difficult situation and he began to praise God. As he begins to praise him he starts to meditate on the fact that there is no want in those that put their trust in the Lord. “The young lions,” he says in verse 10, “do want and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.” We have a seemingly insatiable appetite for the things that are of no spiritual value to us and very little time for prayer and Bible study. We like the drive-through, fast food version of the gospel, but want a 3 course meal version of everything else. In our busy schedules we need to find time for serious and complete focus on God.
My prayer for you today is that you find a significant block of time this week to focus on the goodness of the Lord.
Deacon Larry Woodard