Breadbasket

You know that old joke, “I know what to make for dinner: reservations? Having someone else make the food, serve the food, and clean up after is an absolute dream.

Many of the restaurants we go to serve a little appetizer, maybe chips and salsa or a basket of bread with dipping items. One of my favorite one has bread dipped with garlic butter. Or sometimes biscuits with butter and jelly or cornbread with honey. They fill the breadbasket free as many times as you want it. For Free!

Therein lies the problem, not the carbs, but the meal is still yet to come.

By the time the delicious dinner arrives, we are already full. We stick our forks in our entrees and take a few bites, but the food doesn’t taste as good as we remember. The bread had seemed like a treat at the time, but because we ate too much of it, we have no room left for the nourishing part of the meal.

This happens in our spiritual lives too. We fill ourselves up on TV, movies, books , social media, scrolling through our phones, using up our time and even our daily dose of concentration. By the time we turn our attention on God’s Word, well we are stuffed! Instead of having a little of the bread and a lot of the meal, we ate the whole basket of garlic rolls and there is no room left for the dinner!

So Go Ahead. Choose one biscuit, one TV show, something interesting on the internet or phone, or a few chapters of a good book. But be sure to save room for the main course every day (Psalms119:103). I’m trying to consume less of the pre-meal entertainment so that I’ll still be hungry for the Word of God (Matthew 4:4).

Proverbs 27:7 states, “A person who is full refuses honey”.