Imagine that you are on your way home and are super hungry and in need of something to eat now. You stop at the grocery store, dash in and, not wanting to take long to get something to eat, you head right to the check out line. There you find an assortment of sweet things – candy bars, M&M’s, mints and chewing gum. Knowing that this will at least ward off your hunger, you purchase a couple of your favorite candy bars and head out to the car. Eating the candy bars on your way home, your hunger is pacified…at least for a bit.
We’d call the stuff they sell at the cashier lane “fluff”. It’s nothing substantial. We’d never go get our grocery cart and buy a weeks worth of candy. Why not? It won’t promote growth or health and it won’t satisfy.
If we won’t do that consistently for our body’s sake, why do we often live off of “fluff” in our spiritual lives? We dash into God’s Word, get a quick little something sweet and dash back out again, having satisfied our need for something spiritual. However, it’s not lasting. It won’t promote growth or spiritual health.
Where do you have to go in the grocery store for things of real substance? We go into the depth of the store for those things – back where the meats and dairy products are, also the produce and grains. Proverbs 8:21 is speaking of the Wisdom we find in God’s Word and it says,
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Stop before you open your Bible and ask the Lord to teach you today.
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Sing a song of praise to the Lord. Worship Him. Sit at His feet.
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Slow down. Read slowly and contemplate what you’re reading, just as you would contemplate each item you put into your grocery cart.
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Study a verse that you don’t understand by using a commentary. Matthew Henry commentaries are available on-line and are a great resource.
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Script it. Write down what you learn.
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