Spiritual Snickers Bars

I constantly fight the tendency to fill the God-shaped hole he created in me with fluffy stuff. I don't like quietness, so I fill up the silence with sitcoms and talk shows, Christian music and CNN-but it was in the quiet of the night that Samuel heard God's voice. We were designed to be close to God. Just as our bodies hunger and thirst for food and drink, our spirits hunger and thirst for his presence. But just as it's possible to bloat our bodies with empty calories, we can find ways to pacify our spiritual cravings without really getting the nourishment we need. We can fill up with spiritual Snickers bars while all the time our spirits are withering for want of real food. Once you've tasted the Living Room Intimacy Jesus offers, you'll find nothing else will satisfy. For even Snickers bars taste flat in comparison to the sweetness of the Lord's presence. When you've sampled the best of the best, you'll be willing to skip the junk food this world offers in order to have a real sit-down meal with the Savior. "Taste," as the psalmist says, "and see that the LORD is good!" (Psalm 34:8). (From "Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World")