Vary Your Diet

Do you ever get sick of turkey during the winter holidays?

Last year I was sick of turkey before I ever even cooked any. (I don’t really like it.) 

How do you go about planning for the amount of turkey you’ll use over Thanksgiving? Do you buy extra, knowing that you’ll want to make sandwiches out of it, or soup, or a million other possibilities…kinda like what they did with Bubba Gump Shrimp? Or do you buy enough for everyone who wants it to have a portion, but making sure there won’t be leftovers? Or are you somewhere in between? 

After a while, no matter how you make it, turkey can become something that makes you roll your eyes at the least, and eventually maybe want to hurt someone at the most. 

Take the following scenario:
[Thanksgiving Day]
Husband [rubbing hands together in anticipation]: Oh honey, I can’t wait to taste that turkey! It smells amazing!!
Wife: Just keep you hands away from it for now or you’ll get salmonella. It’s got 3 more hours in the oven. [Looks at watch] At least. 

[Later that day after dinner]
Husband: That was awesome!! Can’t wait for a turkey sandwich tomorrow!
Wife: Good, because we have a ton of leftovers. 

[Day 3 of leftover turkey for every meal]
Husband: That smells good, what is it? 
Wife: Turkey tetrazzini. 
Husband [rolling eyes]: Turkey AGAIN?!?
Wife: Hey, it’s still good!

[Day 6…]
Wife: Hey, what happened to the rest of the turkey that was in the fridge? 
Husband [whistling nonchalantly]: Nooo cluuuue…[ties up garbage bag to take outside]

You can’t keep eating the same thing every day and feel satisfied. After a while you need to change it up. Not only so your taste buds will thank you, but because your body needs various sources of nutrition. 

My husband preached a great sermon this morning about “Go On Unto Perfection”. We can’t stay in the milk of the Word and think we are being fed. We have to move on from simple doctrines, and the basics of right and wrong, into meatier, weightier matters of the Word. 

If you’ve ever been in a church that serves up the milk of the Word on the regular, and never delves deeper, you may find yourself rolling your eyes when the same topics are covered again and again, and called ‘food for thought’. 

See, God gives us a strong foundation of truth for it to be built upon! Have you ever driven past a site where a building or home was started, and for whatever reason, never completed? Doesn’t it look sad? Don’t you wonder what happened to make them stop building? I bet their neighbors wish they would finish construction. 

The same can be said for our spiritual lives. 

If you are living on leftovers of your past studies, or coasting along through conversations with other believers based on spiritual books you’ve read years ago, or can’t discuss anything past the basic doctrines of the faith, and have nothing new to share or inspire others with, may I recommend you clean out your spiritual fridge and get rid of the turkey? 

Remember that the manna the children of Israel tried to store became full of worms. God wanted them to trust Him to provide for them daily. 

The Word of God has something new to teach us every time we read it! God wants us to feast on His Word, and be filled with His Spirit. There’s plenty of room at His table, and we can all pull up a chair. Everything is made fresh to order every day.

Let us go on unto perfection (maturity). 

Hebrews 5:12-6:3
(12) For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
(13) For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
(14) But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
(6:1) Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
(2) Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

1 Corinthians 3:9-11
(9) For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
(10) According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
(11) For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.