Bon Appetit!!!

What's for dinner?? Well last night I cooked steaks and baked potatoes and threw together some salad. Oh and we cant forget the toast!! Thanks to Josh and his recent purchase of a George Foreman Grill, the steaks took all of 7 minutes to cook!! Yummmm!

Tonight I will be making Tatter Tot Casserole. This will be a first time try for us. I am using the Duggar's famous recipe, so we will see how it is. I think I might add a side of greenbeans to go with it or salad. hmmmm...to choose to choose...


Tomorrow Josh will be making coca-cola burgers!! That also will be a first. I think this George Foreman is going to get put to good use.
I am sure that the highlight of your day is reading my dinner menu for the week, and had you not have read this you would have probably had a sleepless night...okay maybe not. The truth is ...i do not really know what to blog about today. I will say that seeing this picture of food and talking about dinner has gotten my stomach growling and my taste buds salivating. Believe it or not, it also has me thinking about my spiritual life. And hunger for Christ or lack of.

For the past months, i have been determined to get up early in the morning, go for a walk, shower, and spend a good 45 minutes to an hour with just me and God. Unfortunately my lazy butt has YET to actually ful-fill this plan. Spiritually I am not eating meals of steak and potatoes and salad. Some days i may spiritually eat a pb&j sandwich or maybe a bowl of cereal...and sometimes I am spiritually starving myself. When i see this picture, I think about how it represents the meal of a fighter. Someone who needs their strength and work so hard that they are starving by the end of the day. This meal does not describe me Spiritually. It describes me in the past moments of my life but not right now.

 It is so easy to change the menu of our spiritual life, however it is sometimes very dangerous to our spiritual health. It's in our most starved spiritual moments that the Devil is waiting just around the corner to pounce and devour. He waits until we are most vulnerable and most malnourished state and then he lures us in by dwindling what looks like a nice juicy steak or a hearty vegetable salad (for you vegetarians :-)) and as soon as we get ready to grab it, he cages us in his trap. I am recognizing more and more each day the importance of keeping myself spiritually nourished. I thankful for those moments in which i do struggle and fail because i am only brought back to the importance of seeking the Lord daily and being in continual fellowship with him.

Interestingly enough, i began this blog before lunch yesterday and when i took my lunch break, I went home and took a few minutes to read His Word. Guess what verses i had left off at??

 John 4:31-38

³¹ Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

³² But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
³³ Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
³⁴ “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. ³⁵ Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. ³⁶ Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. ³⁷ Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. ³⁸ I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

If you do not believe in your own hear that the Lord speaks and confirms then take my experiences for example. I did not search out scripture about being spiritually fed and did not look ahead from the last time i read. The Lord will convict and lead if we have open hearts.

Refill Anyone?

I’m slowly but surely hearing from my Heavenly Father. It’s odd because He is speaking in the smallest ways and through the simplest forms. It’s well needed that is for sure and i pray He continues to pour into me.
Its so easy to pour out and give but then we forget that we need to be refilled. Spiritually i feel like I get so carried away with pouring into others and life itself that I forget to make sure im being refilled continually.

There is nothing better than the waitress who keeps an eye on your glass of tea and notices when its 3/4ths empty. Before you can finish it off and regret drinking that last drop because of the wait for more, she is there to refill it. I thought about this and i thought about how Christ is continually waiting for the opportunity to refill our “glass” (hearts). However, in order for Him to refill the cup we must put it down and allow Him to Pour Into it. This is something i am learning…

I’m glad He does not make me wait for a refill, however i regret the fact that sometimes when he comes for the refill i decline. It’s so easy to be full and feel hydrated, however that is impossible with Christ. We are called to continually serve Him in all our actions and everything we do. If we are required to give daily what He pours into us then it’s impossible for us to be filled. We must continually be refilled. We never know what is around the corner to drain our thirst or dehydrate us, therefore we must always be full and overflowing!…. (side-note: that is in no way what I intended to write but for some reason it came out)

Jeremiah 2:13–
“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 14:3
“The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns but find no water. They return with their jars unfilled; dismayed and despairing, they cover their heads.”
 **We can not expect to get the same living water Christ provides from our own ‘well’. We will never be fulfilled. We were made for the “water” our Christ provides…we become dehydrated with out it.

Jeremiah 17:8
“He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes;its leaves are always green.It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
**When we are being poured into daily, we are always prepared for the bumps that life throws in front of us or the Valleys we are left walking. Christ is waiting at our booth with a never ending pitcher of the very things our life needs…i don’t know about yall but i need a refill!