Are We Full of Junk Food? By Rev.

J Patrick Bowman While I was on the Mobile Prayer Chapel the other day, I began to look at the people coming and going out of the Safeway parking lot. I wondered about the state of their lives. It reminded me of the verses in Matthew 24 where Jesus is talking about the state of the world until the very day Noah entered the ark and the flood came. Business as usual, doing the things that people do, without regard to the judgment that Noah said was eminent. I suddenly felt very sad in my spirit and asked God, Why arent people hungry for You? God told me, Hunger comes from not being full. People are full of things that dont really benefit them, but they are full nonetheless. Not until these things are taken away will they consider their lack and turn to me. I began to consider what the Lord had spoken to my spirit. The problem isnt in what people have or how they spend their time. The problem is in allowing those things to fill us. When the hunger of our flesh and soul is met with the things of the world, the hunger for God that is alive in our spirit is covered over. The junk food has made us think we are being nourished, while in reality we are starving. The book of Revelation, chapter 3, contains letters written by God to the churches. In His letter to the church of the Laodiceans, God says, Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. This was a letter to the church. The problem exists not just with those people outside the household of faith. Its is a problem inside the church, as well. Because we have allowed ourselves to be filled in the natural, our confession is one of delusion and our knowledge of our own state is unenlightened. Has business as usual in the church, because we think its working, caused us to fill up on our own accomplishments and leave little room for Gods agenda? Has the church in America ignored the call of repentance and therefore failed to see the ark of Gods safety so prominent in our midst? Judgment starts in the house of the Lord. We are living in a small window of opportunity to judge ourselves, lest we be judged. All things will be tried in the fire and the fire is near. Can you feel the heat? All hidden sin will be exposed. All our self-righteousness will be laid bare. Lets be reasonable and heed Gods gracious offer to come clean now and offer ourselves a living sacrifice as Romans 12 instructs us to do. We can be clothed with the white raiment. Our shamefulness can be covered. Our blindness can be healed. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.