We Can't Run On Pop-Tarts!

When this writer get up every weekday morning to ready myself for the day's work, I immediately start to fix myself a healthy breakfast, consisting of fruit, eggs, turkey bacon, whole wheat toast and orange juice.

Health care professionals tell us that a healthy breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Unfortunately, for many families living in our fast-paced society, pop-tarts play a large part in their breakfast cuisine. Pop-tarts have virtually little or no nutritional value, but are most made up of starches and sugars (it's no wonder that adults and children are hyper and obese!). Also see global study of why one in five people are eating themselves to an early death (see here).

The same hold true in the spiritual realm. The spiritual part of us cannot long exist on non-nutritional "I'm ok, you're ok"; "all roads lead to heaven" humanist and denominational teaching.

We have to ingest the pure "milk of the word" (1 Peter 2:1-2; cf. 1 Corinthians 3:2 as well as the "meat" that God's word contains (Hebrews 5:12-14; cf. 1 Corinthians 2:1-6; 1 Corinthians 14:20), so that the spiritual part of our being remains healthy at all times.

Just as a healthy body has a healthy immune system to help fight off dangerous viruses and various diseases, so our spiritual man has to have a healthy immune system, in order to successfully fight off the carnal viruses of this world (2 Corinthians 10:1-6; Ephesians 6:10-18; cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11).

Dear reader, we can't spiritually run on pop-tarts! Rather, we have to run on "every word that proceeds from the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4; cf. Deuteronomy 8:3; Psalm 19:7-11). This nutritious spiritual food will allow us to successfully run the Christian race, "fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfect of faith" (Hebrews 12:1-2 NASB).

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets