December 4, 2012 § Leave a comment

This time of year we may experience more often than usual the feeling of a full stomach. When you’ve had enough to eat, you know you can’t fit any more food in you, so you stop… unless you’re a Rottweiler.

BurgerHunger is like a vacuum. Where there is a void, there is a yearning to fill it with something. Sometimes we make good choices on what we eat. Sometimes we hit the drive-thru.

The human heart is like a vacuum too. If it feels empty, we will fill it. Sometimes we choose poorly in the filling of our hearts. Once sin finds a home in our heart and mind, showing up in our habits and lifestyle, there’s really just one way to eliminate it effectively. In a practical sense, it can’t be simply removed or forgotten. When you pull something from a vacuum, low pressure forces draw it—or something else nearby—back into it. It must be replaced, selectively, with something good.

~Blaise Pascal (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)

Pascal recognized the vacuum in the human heart that only found true satisfaction in God. Paul encouraged Christians to “set your minds on things above, not on earthly things”, (Colossians 3:2) and warned against superficial vices: “Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.” (Ephesians 5:18)

Choose to ingest Him—through prayer, reading His word, practice worship and right living, and fellowship with other believers. When you are full of something good, there simply isn’t room for lesser things.


Eat up!

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