Diet - Day 8

Well, I just finished a full week of the "Lemonade Diet" and counting. We're supposed to stay on this thing for 3 more days. At this point, I'm counting the days! It's not that I've been hungry, because I stay full; it's just that I find myself craving solid food. I see food commercials and dream of eating pizza, hamburgers, or even broccoli. Anything but lemonade!

I'm not doing this primarily as a spiritual fast, but I have been reminded that I need to crave spiritual food, just like my body craves physical food. Too often my spiritual diet gets stale. It's like drinking lemonade over and over. The Bible talks about our spiritual diet in Hebrews 15 when it says

12. By now you should have been teachers, but once again you need to be taught the simplest things about what God has said. You need milk instead of solid food. 13. People who live on milk are like babies who don't really know what is right. 14. Solid food is for mature people who have been trained to know right from wrong.

God never meant for us to live off milk, or lemonade for that matter. There's a whole world of solid food out there for us to enjoy. So, let's leave the watered-down spiritual diet behind and move on to something we can really sink our teeth into.