There is a huge difference between fast food and a home-cooked meal.
When I was a teenager I would be out with my friends. When we got hungry, we'd pull into a fast food place and gobble down burgers and fries.
Then I would come home to my mother who had fixed a home-cooked meal. I'd see the food left waiting for me and have no appetite. "No thanks mom, I already ate!"
Sigh... what wouldn't I give for one of those meals now!
Feasting on the fast food took away my appetite for the meal my mother had prepared for me. Although the hunger was gone, my body was not nourished.
The same could be said of when we eat the wisdom that the world has to offer and neglect the Word of God. Feasting on whatever comes across on TV or the internet. Much of what we consider entertainment out there today has lessons and is teaching us, whether we realize it or not. Lessons on what success looks like, lessons on what beauty is, etc.
Reading Proverbs chapter 9 today, look how the Word describes God's wisdom.
"Wisdom has built her house;
she has set up its seven pillars.
She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine;
she has also set her table.
She has sent out her servants, and she calls
from the highest point of the city,
"Let all who are simple come to my house!"
To those who have no sense she says,
"Come, eat my food
and drink the wine I have mixed.
Leave your simple ways and you will live;
walk in the way of insight." Proverbs 9:1-6 (NIV)
Today, will we feast on the fast food of the world, or stay in the hunger for wisdom and sit down with the Bible to be nourished by His Word?
