Wednesday, June 1, 2016

How's your appetite?


What happens, when God’s people lose their appetite for the very thing God uses to feed them? 

During the Exodus, God fed his people with manna. But what happens after years of eating this bread from heaven?  Some of the people lost their appetite!    

Numbers 11: 4 The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat! 5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. 6 But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna

When we first go to church, when we first learn from the Bible, it’s like the love boat, it’s exciting and new. (old 70’s reference).  But what about when you’ve been praying, and reading the Bible and going to church for 40 years? What happens when a follower of Christ loses their appetite for the very thing that God uses to help them grow spiritually?

In the passage above, bored taste buds made them long for the food of their slavery. Bored taste buds can lead us back to Egypt.  Instead of tasting and seeing that the Lord is good, we can wander back into the fifty cents tacos from Jack in the box.


How is your appetite for the things of God?  Take time this week to ask God for a renewed hunger for Jesus Christ!

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