Spiritual
Soul Food:
Anorexia and bulimia are mind-crippling diseases that only
function where food is plentiful. There are way too many starving people on
this Earth, but most of them can't help it. Where they live there is not enough
food to go around. It is ironically tragic that people can starve to death in
the midst of plenty. What happens in the physical world is almost always an
illustration of something like it in spiritual realms. And in spiritual terms,
there is nothing more tragic than to have Christians starving spiritually with
an overabundance of Bibles and teachers everywhere.
John admits that he doesn’t
know a lot about anorexia and bulimia, but only knows that they are fueled by a
culture that glorifies being thin, and that those who purposely starve
themselves have a false view of themselves as being overweight. They look in
the mirror and see a fat person regardless of how thin they are. The spiritual implications
are obvious here as well. Our culture is awash in its own shallowness. We even
glory in it. Shallowness and stupidity are celebrated in many of our most
popular movies.
I worry that as democracies begin to flourish around the world,
it seems that the lifestyle of American culture goes along with them through
the power of music and entertainment. We are exporting our own emptiness. And
yet when we look at ourselves in a spiritual way, we look fat with so much
cultural Christianity. Never in history has a culture looked more Christian
while being so spiritually dead. We are, indeed, the spiritually anorexic.
What
changes this picture is a commitment to the truth of God's Word and a constant
diet of it in our spiritual lives. And you have to do this yourself. No one can
save an anorexic person; each has to decide to eat. The Word of God is
spiritual soul food, and if you are spiritually starved, that's only because
you are not eating. We need to get a more realistic view of ourselves. We may
look fat to ourselves, but in truth, we are thin, near death, and we need to
eat - and food is plentiful.
Just
pick up your Bible and eat.
(Written by John Fischer)
Profile Information Source:
John
Fischer is the Senior Writer for Purpose Driven Life Daily Devotionals. He
resides in Southern California with his wife and son. John is also a published author and
songwriter.
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