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What Are You Feeding On?

Choosing Your Spiritual Diet

There is a true story of a man who met a family that had lived on the mission field. The family included an adopted son from the country where they served. They adopted him because he had been abandoned by his family. They found him as a baby living on a trash heap, surviving by eating whatever he could grab and put into his mouth.

As heartbreaking as this story is, it gets worse. Even after the family adopted the boy and started to feed him proper nutrition, he had health challenges growing up from what he ate off the trash heap as a baby.

There is an important lesson for us all in this story:

“Be careful what you put in your life and where you get it from.”

Your future spiritual health depends on what you choose to feed yourself today. There are many things in the world to feed on: social media, television, movies, news, education systems, gossip, etc. Taking your spiritual nourishment from these places is like eating off a trash heap — it will leave you with spiritual health challenges.

A consistent diet of God’s Word in the Bible and from preaching in church will feed you the right things spiritually. You become healthy by exercising your faith and doing what the Word of God says. This is where healthy spiritual growth happens.

Prayer

“Today I choose to feed on the Word of God. May I grow healthy and strong by it. Amen.”