Dinner

A child does not spend the day thinking about dinner. The child knows that an adult will find, prepare and serve the food, and that the time and place will be announced. All the child has to do is answer the call to dinner, and eat.

But when a child becomes a woman, she thinks about dinner, sometimes planning days ahead. What food is at hand, and what needs to be purchased? What is the day’s schedule and how much time will be needed to prepare the food? The subject of dinner is with the woman throughout the day.

So it is with the spiritual life. When we are new Christians, someone else prepares the nourishment of the Word and serves it to us. All we have to do is show up and partake. But as we grow, we begin to take on the responsibility not only for ourselves, but for others. Our goal as mature Christians is to have the things of God as a constant presence in our minds, never far from the surface. We begin to minister the Word to others while maintaining our relationship with God.


Jos 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.