on the walk

I have been working to maintain a healthier weight lately. In particular this means that I am being careful in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I know that at Christmas I will have the opportunity to eat the best of foods, and I so I don’t want to waist myself on Chicken nuggets now and be too gorged to enjoy the true delicacies of Christmas when they arrive.

I was reminded of a corollary of this as I have prepared for our advent service tomorrow night. We are talking about longing for God and Christ. I have read a dozen or so psalms where people cry out to God to come to them or where the prophets pray to God for a savior. I want a longing like that.

I don’t want to encounter the feast of godly blessing that comes to me through the work of Christ and be too stuffed with all the junk of the world to truly drink deeply and taste the full richness of God’s table.

This advent as I prepare myself, I think that I need to change my diet. I need less of television, and presidential campaigns. I need less hustling and consumerism. I need fewer critical commentaries and arguments about theology. I need less internet news and a lot fewer you tube videos. I need less of all the junk food that fills my mental, and spiritual diet. I need to let myself get a little hungry, perhaps even ravenous for the only bread that truly satisfies:

The bread of life,

Jesus, the only Son of the only God.

on the walk

-Ethan

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