Diet Shapes Appetite Over Time

Make a diet if cheeseburgers, over time you will have an appetite for cheeseburgers, and a body that shows it!  Let us talk about church:  Feed a church entertainment and it will have an appetite for entertainment.  Feed a church pop psychology and it will have an appetite for pop psychology.  Feed a church the Word of God and over time that church will hunger and thirst for righteousness.  Diet shapes appetite over time.  This is a fundamental principle.  You will want more of whatever you feed yourself on.  So, that means we want to monitor our diet carefully.

How is your diet shaping your appetites?   Do you like to work out? Sleep? Watch sports?  Read?  TV?  There is certainly nothing wrong with these, but here is the question: are the legitimate pleasures of life holding you back from being all that Christ calls you to be.  Is your appetite for God and His will diminished by a diet of other things?

The best way to subdue any appetite is to cultivate a stronger appetite that will take its place.  How can we cultivate a desire for holiness?  How can we have a greater hunger for God and righteousness?  Matthew 5:6 suggests we simply make a diet of such things:  "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. . . . "  Replace a diet of things of the world with a diet of the things of GOD - and over time, you will have developed an appetite for God and for righteousness.