Roaming Tennessee Girl

Starving for What?

Warning...I am aware that I will be using some of the verses in today's post out of context. I know that I am doing; however I am taking a slight creative license because it's my blog and I can:)

Food is so good. I love eating. I don't remember a time that I haven't enjoyed a good meal especially when with wonderful friends. I eat way too much food hence the reason I will never be a size 2! Some of my favorites are pizza, chocolate, ice cream, chicken tenders, salads, chicken and dumplings (my mom's are the best:), soup, hamburgers, laffy taffy, fries, etc. Don't worry I feel the same about drinking stuff: coffee, tea, water, coffee, tea, water:) But food is the topic of the day... Maybe because New Year's is so close and EVERYONE begins talking about how they they are going to have to go on a diet, start cutting back, and etc, etc, etc.

We live in a food obessed society. It amazes me how often we tend to talk about food. When I lived in France it always amazed me it only took us expats about an hour together to start talking about food especially american food we missed. My nieces often times ask what is for lunch about 10 minutes after we eat breakfast. Saturday after lunch I asked my mom what she wanted for Lunch on Sunday. 24 hours early and I was already thinking about lunch. We always act like we are starving if we skip a meal or have to eat to late. You get used to eating lunch at 12 and by 2 you are ready to eat your arm off. Starving for food and sometimes drink....

1 Corinthians 8:8 But Food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat it, nor the better if we do eat.(NASB)

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not eating or drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (NASB)

I spend quite a bit of my day thinking about food. How often do i think of righteousness and peace and joy and for the matter the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit? How often am I starving to hang out with Jesus? When I am hungry all I think about is food and when I will get some. When I am struggling do I think about Jesus? Do I hungry for his prescence? Do I ache to be filled up by his love and companion? I get lonely, sad, empty, and tired. How to I cure those pains?

This week I challenged my class to try and spend an hour in the quiet with God...No noise and no distraction. I need to do the same thing. I can't hunger from something I don't really spend any energy thinking about. I crave food because it is always right in my face. I need to figure out how to put Christ right in my face so that I crave him also. I want to be starving to spend more time in His presence.

posted by deanna @ 8:49 AM