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Feeding On The Right Things
A four-year-old girl complained to her parents one day that her stomach hurt. Her parents took her to the doctor and once an X-ray was taken, it was discovered that the girl had swallowed twenty-eight beads, a dog’s bone, three plastic toy bricks, a deflated balloon, a toy dog, eight coins, some bird seed, sand, and leaves. With all that in your stomach, you would definitely have stomach pains too.
This story may be amazing and unusual and even a bit humorous, but there is a higher message this incident brings to mind.
We are created a certain way by God. Our organs are made to perform certain duties. Our stomach is designed for food that provides our body with energy to work, build our body, and run our brain. Fill your stomach with beads, bones, toy bricks, and the other above objects, and your stomach will ache, but the remainder of your body is deficient of what it needs to survive.
How well do we feed our spirit that God put in us? What are you feeding your heart? Have you nurtured it with love, devotion, and dedication? If so, it will grow and give you energy to perform numerous good deeds for others and God. Fill your spiritual side with junk - wine, filthy reading, gossip, hatred, greed, prejudice, indifference, immorality, and jealousy - and you will be hurting yourself with slow self-destruction.
No one with an average intelligence would intentionally feed himself or a child objects like sand, leaves, coins, etc. But it is common to see the same person feed their mind and others with a steady diet of hatred, jealousy, immorality, profane speech, indifference, and other “junk” which will kill the soul.
Having a mind cluttered with the world has no lasting value and prevents us from seeing what is truly important - ETERNITY. Few people think seriously about it. They are only concerned about the here and now. They may even say, “Don’t bother me. I have everything I need.”
How about tomorrow? When it comes, will you have everything you need for the judgment?
Eternity may seem a long way off, but somehow it manages to get around to all of us.
“For we must all stand before the judgment seat of God.”
Romans 14:10
