Are you too full?

Since my husband and often worked 6:00 am to 2:00 pm, we often found ourselves eating dinner around 3 o'clock in the afternoon.  It worked out good because lunch was at 10:30 so by three in the afternoon we were hungry again.

I recall one afternoon him calling and saying "let's go have steak." I was on board with that and when I got home, I changed clothes and waited for him to get  home.  An hour later when he had not arrived, he called and said he was on assignment and would be late. 

Two hours later he was still out and this time when he called, I asked if I should go ahead and eat.  He still wanted to salvage dinner plans and said he expected to be home within the hour so I waited.  At 6:00 pm when he finally came through the door, he needed a shower and change of clothes so when we got to dinner at about seven, we were starving!

We sat and ordered our steak but we found ourselves "ravenous," one would have thought we hadn't eaten in days.  We did not stop with the steak, we ordered appetizers as well.  We ordered a bowl of our favorite soup and helped ourselves to the complimentary bread....and lots of it! 

When our steak arrived, you guessed it..we were so full we couldn't eat our main meal. Our eyes had overridden our stomachs in ordering the large portion of soup. 

When we arrived at the restaurant, we wanted instant gratification.  Our hunger would not wait so we took matters into our own hands and ruined our dinner.  

God wants us to be"full" in His Word.  He wants us to savor every moment with him but often times we "fill ourselves up" with insignificant things that take place of His Word.  We choose to read a book that gives "man's opinion" on how to have a better life or we choose to cut our own path without consulting God;  or the worst, we choose to fill our life with sin and in doing so, leave no room for Christ.

My husband and I could have refrained from ordering that soup and savored the steak down to the last bite.  We too can savor God's Word when we repent of our sins and allow the Holy Spirit to fill our life! Don't be too full that you miss the fullness of Christ!

I pray that...you may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.  Ephesians 3:18-19