Food For Thought

I so enjoy spending time with my son, especially the times we have doing his daily devotions. I also enjoy our time we have together cooking. He has actually gotten to be quite good at preparing meals as well as deserts. He practices his skills often and is even becoming very creative. Recently he made the BEST cheesecake I have ever had in my life. As any proud mother would do, I have encouraged him to enter the recipe in a contest!

Learning to cook takes a lot of time and he enjoys it so much that it has had a recent tendency to cut into our devotion time. During the time we would normally do our devotions, he now uses to cook himself a gourmet breakfast. With a full belly, we pray the "send off to school prayer" and off he goes for the day. His belly may be full, but I am unsettled knowing that his spirit is not.

This morning I made mention that he needs to start to cook earlier because we are not finding time to get his devotion done. His response was, "Well I go to church on Sunday's". My response was, "Would you like it if you only ate one meal a week?" That question was immediately followed by a "NO". I explained that if you don't study God's word daily that your spirit man is going to be starved just like your stomach would be starved if you didn't feed it food. With that, he took a quick look at the clock and saw he had 2 minutes before he had to leave, he grabbed his devotional book and his Bible and said "We have to go quick!". I encouraged his wise choice!

It is so important that we take every opportunity, no matter how small, to feed our children the word of God. Their spirit's need to be strengthened by the Word so that they may stand against the temptations they encounter, and so that they will by young men and women whose lights shine in dark places, and so that they will not choose to compromise their faith. The list could go on and on.

Take time to feed their spirit's as you do their stomach's. Their growth depends on it!