Both Thao and I, we are not fans of leftover foods. Our leftover food consumption limit is like 2 meals, max!! I still eat leftover food from last night dinner for lunch, but just don’t eat the same food again for dinner. I’d rather make  instant noodle or something else instead.  I know friends who cook large quantity of the same food to eat throughout the week, or friends who eat the same thing for several weeks. I’m not sure I can do that. I like varieties!! I love my wife, and the fact that she prepares different food for me every day. I know, I am so spoiled!!! 

I can’t speak for everyone, but I think in general, everyone likes fresh and newly prepared foods. I believe food lost its good taste and possibly nutritions after reheating too many times. You wouldn’t enjoy it the same way as you first had it! Too much of the same thing is not a good thing either! After a while, you are no longer appreciate its goodness and benefits.

Having said that, last Saturday it just hit me that I have been totally done just the opposite with my spiritual hunger. It was time to go to Bible Study and I was running around the house to look for my personal Bible. Was it on the coffee table, or the sofa, or on the bookshelf, or in the kids bag? Or maybe Thao was cleaning around the house and she stacked it somewhere?  Nope! The Bible was no where to be found. Suddenly, in my head an image pop up.  It was Jesus looking at me with the sad sad eyes, as He was saying to me: “I’ve been waiting for you all week and you didn’t come…”  I stopped!!! Had it been a week already? I thought to myself  ”Things were really busy for me in the week.  I thought I only missed reading the Bible,  like a day or two…” But the evidence was clearly presented: my Bible was not here! I had been recycled spiritual foods that I consumed in the past. I filled it up so full that I forgot about the need for fresh daily food.  I took a moment to confess to God, then left for the Bible Study night…

 

Regarding satisfying our spiritual hunger, do we feed it with fresh foods or just reheat leftovers from last week sermon or long long ago? How often do we feed ourselves? Everyday,  once a week, or on diet for several months? Do we balance our diet, or just consume too much of the foods that we like?   … These questions are for me to realize too many times I have fallen to the same trap that Satan has set.  There is nothing wrong with living on God’s Words that we have learned in the past.  But if we stop  giving our spirit with fresh God’s Word daily, eventually we will stop growing. There is no more nutritions for our spiritual body to benefit from the old stuff. We usually have many of the the “too-excuse”,  like: too busy, too tired, too sleepy … to spend time and have a wonderful fresh meal with God.  Or many times we just really like certain verses, and those are all we dwell on. They get plain and bored really fast. What amazing about God’s Words is: “They are new every morning” (Lamentations 3:23) That is His promise for us. We won’t have the same but different experience everytime we learn with God, and He is looking forward to spend time with us, at meal time.  Let’s ask God to strengthen our appetites so we are looking forward to every fresh meal with Him, instead of relying on old old leftover foods!

The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary.  He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught. — Isaiah 50:4

In case you wonder about my Bible, I found it!  Last week, after church I went to my parent’s house, left it there and forgot to bring home. And the pictures, they are foods my wife cooked for me in last couple days.