Luke 1:53 “He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.”
The Lord taught me a principle this summer that I had never acknowledged or experienced. Bear with me as I explain. As many of you know in the month of July, I lost both of my parents within 17 days of each other. Yes, I had total peace that they are in Heaven and that God had called them home, but letting them go was and has been difficult. One of the reasons for the difficulty was that I had moved them both to Georgia to live with me and Tonya full time and was excited knowing we would be in charge of their caregiving because they will be going to live in our home with us. The Lord began to teach me this principle on July 3rd, the first night my mother was in our home. My son and I prepared the supper meal of things that she had always enjoyed eating. The table was full, the smell of the food was great and I found myself being moved with the feeling of hunger, but my mother, though she had requested these foods, would state over and over, “I have no appetite, I’m just not hungry, nothing tastes good to me at all.” From the 3rd day of July to the 8th day of July, my mother made the decision to take no meds and we could not even force food down her. She would reject it, curling her little face and saying “It just taste’s so bad.” Here’s the point that boggled my mind. How can a person starve to death with a table full of food and loved ones encouraging them to eat, yet they still refuse to eat to meet the physical need of nourishment in their body? I know that part of this is the process of physical death, but God revealed to me it is also the process of spiritual death. Every day we are given a spiritual buffet from the Word of God to feast upon but many of us refuse to partake if what the Lord has prepared and provided to sustain our lives spiritually. Therefore, depression, sickness and hopelessness can obsess our lives to the place that it can also cause physical death. So, let me ask one question, how’s your appetite, are hungry for the Living Word of God?
