An
old man goes to a diner every day for lunch. He always
orders the soup du jour. One day the manager asks him how
he liked his meal. The old man replies, "Wass goot,
but you could give a little more bread."
So the next day the manager tells the waitress to give
him four slices of bread. "How was your meal,
sir?" the manager asks. "Wass goot, but you
could give a little more bread," comes the reply.
So the next day the manager tells the waitress to give
him eight slices of bread. "How was your meal today,
sir?" the manager asks. "Wass goot, but you
could give a little more bread," comes the reply.
So ... the next day the manager tells the waitress to
give him a whole loaf of bread with his soup. "How
was your meal, sir?" the manager asks, when he comes
to pay. "Wass goot, but you could give just a
little more bread," comes the reply once again.
The manager is now obsessed with wanting to hear this
customer say that he is satisfied with his meal, so he
goes to the bakery, and orders a six-foot-long loaf of
bread. When the man comes in as usual the next day, the
waitress and the manager cut the loaf in half, butter the
entire length of each half, and lay it out along the
counter, right next to his bowl of soup. The old man sits
down, and devours his bowl of soup and both halves of the
six-foot-long loaf of bread.
The manager now thinks he will get the answer he is
looking for, and when the old man comes up to pay for his
meal, the manager asks in the usual way: "How was
your meal TODAY, sir?"
The old man replies: "It wass goot as usual, but I
see you are back to giving only two slices of
bread!"
Now there's a man with an insatiable craving for bread! We consider that unnatural, but oh that we had that kind of craving for a relationship with God! Perhaps the reason many of us don't have the
relationship with God that we think we ought to have is
that we truly don't desire it enough.
Listen
to David:
"As
the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for
You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living
God." (Psalm 42:1-2a).
Father, we want to be close to you, but we confess that
there are many times that our desire for other things
takes precedence in our lives. Help instill within us an
insatiable craving for you.
In Jesus' name,
Amen.
This
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Boone, NC
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