Will That be Peanut Butter and Jelly or Ham Salad?

          In all of my years of education, I was never in a primary or high school that had a cafeteria. We had to bring our own lunches. I brought mine in an old world war 2 ammunition box that was given to me by my Uncle Harry after the war. You could drive a truck over it. I think for the first three years, I ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and then the next 9 years, I ate ham salad only it was made with round up baloney with a sweet pickle and salad dressing. By the end of the day, especially in grade school, I would almost eat anything and the paste and crayons smelled mighty good by three o'clock in the afternoon. Our desire for food should be just as great in the spiritual life as it is in the physical life. First Peter 2:1-3 says, “Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” 

        We know from experience how a baby desires to be fed. In the beginning of life, it seems that every 2 or 3 hours we hear the crying of the baby that it needs more food. Peter capitalized on that idea, naturally through the inspiration of the Word of God, that we should desire to have spiritual food just as does a newborn babe. The result is the same when spiritual maturity begins to increase day by day in the life of the believer. Getting home from school would soon find me trying to eat anything that was available whether it be graham crackers and milk or even bread and ketchup. The same should be true today in regard to our hunger for the Word of God. For many, it seems that we are on a spiritual diet. The Bible is one thing that you can't get to much of. When you think of the diet of the believer, you should take a moment and reflect on the Psalmist who wrote Psalm 119. All but 5 of the 176 verses mention the value of the Word of God. I am always amazed at the love the Psalmist had for God's Word. It wasn't just a whim or something fanciful he thought that might be good, but was the deep desire of his heart to have a full diet of God's Word. Second Timothy 3:16-17 remind us of the value of God's Word to us and so we should be in it more and more each day. There is nothing in this world that can satisfy as does God's Word to a hungry believer. So don't settle for the paste and crayons of the world system, but turn to the Scriptures for a satisfying diet of real spiritual food. Praise God for giving us His Word.