What do you want to eat?
A simple question... yet in me... it stirs the flesh...
What I want doesn't really matter... a condition restricts my eating... rules needed to keep me healthy...
Then a thought... Shouldn't I want what I need?
Why aren't these the same... wants and needs...
Lately... craving what leads to death... I begrudge what I need... what leads to life...
Isn't it that way spiritually too?
Wanting... craving... that which enslaves... that which leads to death...
The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, "If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost -- also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!"
Numbers 11:4-6
(emphasis mine)
That's me... resisting the call of the rabble... resisting the urge to run back... trying to remember...
All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions -- it is by grace you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:3-5
Father God... by Your grace... transform my cravings... make what I want... what I need...
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