A Bowl of Cherries?

Do you ever stop to think about different cliches? Little tid bits of words to ponder. Some are good, some not, but they are still food for thought. I got thinking this morning as to why one would equate life with a "bowl of cherries". Sayings can sometimes be seeming less but sayings usually speak volumes of lessons to us.

This morning I came across this saying in Luke 12 spoken directly by Jesus himself. He said, "Life is more than food..." Of course I had to stop right there, mid sentence, because I knew the Holy Spirit had something to speak to me.

Food is a basic need that each of us have. Food is what gives us the vitamins, minerals and calories we need each and everyday in order to survive. God provides what we are in need of.

Do we trust God to provide what we have need of or do we gather and hoard away afraid that the supply will run out? There is one thing to take advantage of a good sale and it is another to stock up an abundance that will grow old and perish.

Do we trust God with our emotional needs or do we allow food to be our source of comfort? How often we allow food to be what causes us comfort when we are stressed out and to bring us pleasure when we are hurting or depressed. Sometimes we even allow food to be our reward.

Do we trust God to be our greatest source of fellowship or do we depend on food to be what draws people into fellowship with us? Food and fellowship quite often go hand in hand. We can get so focused on what we are going to make or bring (will there be enough? how will it stay hot?) that we focus more on the food than on the reason God put on our heart to get together in the first place.

Food can be so satisfying. But it is not to take place of God satisfying you. David said in Psalm 63, "My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods...". God satisfies the soul, food satisfies the stomach. Sometimes we put food in our mouths trying to satisfy our souls, but the truth is, that that is a place reserved for God and only God will be able to satisfy that area.

The substance that satisfies the soul is the word of God. The word of God is our spiritual food. Psalm 119:103 says, "How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" Honey is sweet, but sweeter yet is the word of God.

This posting is not meant to encourage us not to eat food, but to take an honest look perhaps as to the possible attachments that we have to food or that food has to us. Sometimes we live to eat instead of eating to live. "Life is more than food" was spoken to teach us not to worry, but to trust. Worry can cause emotional attachments to all kinds of "things", today, I am just using food as an example to make us take a closer look into places we can misplace our trust.