The Kitchen

God is holy and He desires us to be holy as well.

Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” 

1 Peter 1:13-16

If you don't clean your kitchen, your food won't be clean.

In addition to eating spiritual food, we have to examine ourselves and invite God to create a clean heart in us as our spiritual kitchen (Psalm 51:10). Spiritual food is meaningless to us unless we first allow God into our kitchen (2 Corinthians 4:1-6). When we invite God into our kitchen, He will prepare a spiritual feast for us that feeds our soul. Our soul hungers to be fed with good clean spiritual food, but for our spiritual food to be clean, we have to first clean our kitchen (2 Corinthians 5:17)

No one chooses sin because it is sin. 

Our hungry soul longs for food. We can work through the process of getting good spiritual food for our soul  or we can settle for spiritual junk food. We settle for sin because it is pleasurable and it tastes good to your spiritual tastebuds for a moment, but it will not produce long-term soul satisfaction or health. We don’t choose sin because it tastes bad, we choose it because it tastes good—it’s just not the right context for it. As dessert before dinner steals our appetite, sin steals the spiritual food and joy God has for us.

Are you living for temporal happiness?

The spiritual food we feed our soul shapes who we become. Who we become shapes what we do as our actions flow out of our heart (Proverbs 4:23, Matthew 12:34, Mark 7:21, Luke 6:45). Invite God into your kitchen and ask Him to create a spiritual feast for you today.