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We Can’t Run On Pop-Tarts!

When this writer gets up every weekday morning at 5:00 a.m., preparing myself to go to the workplace, I immediately start to fix myself a healthy breakfast consisting of fruit, eggs, turkey bacon (without any fat), whole wheat toast and orange juice. Research tells us that a healthy breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Unfortunately, for many families living in our fast-paced society, pop-tarts play a large part in their breakfast cuisine. Pop-tarts have virtually no nutritional value, but are mostly made up of starches and sugars (and we wonder why adults and kids are hyper and obese!).

The same holds true in the spiritual realm. The spiritual part of us cannot long exist on the non-nutritional humanist, “I’m ok, you’re ok” philosophy, or the “all roads lead to heaven” denominational teaching.

Dear reader, we have to ingest the pure “milk of the word” (1 Corinthians 3:2; 1 Peter 2:1-2) as well as the “meat” that God’s word has to offer (Hebrews 5:12-14 ASV; cf. 1 Corinthians 2:1-6 ASV; 1 Corinthians 14:20 ASV), so that the spiritual part of our being remains healthy at all times.

Just as a healthy body has a healthy immune system to help fight off dangerous viruses and various diseases, so our spiritual man has to have a healthy immune system, in order to successfully fight off the carnal evils of this world (2 Corinthians 10:1-6; Ephesians 6:10-18; cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11).

Brethren and friends, we can’t spiritually run on pop-tarts! We have to run on “every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4; cf. Deuteronomy 8:3; Psalm 19:7-11). This spiritually nutritious food will allow us to successfully run the Christian race, “fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith” (Hebrews 12:1-2 NASB).

Only then can we say along with the faithful apostle Paul at the end of our earthly journey, “For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing” (2 Timothy 4:6-8 ASV).