Watch your appetite (Part 1)

This is the 52^nd letter:

Text for the day: Matthew 24:37
For as the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the son of man be.

Our Theme for the day:  Watch your appetite (Part 1)

 

Have you notice lately how fast time is going by? Just like it takes three weeks before chickens are born into the world, three weeks has passed and we are back home from our time in nature with God. We also spent some quality time with family and friends. Thank you for your prayers, as my wife and I have been praying for you our readers of Garden Ministry. Today we are looking at the number one thing that most people love to do, eat. Eating is a big thing for many people nowadays, and it seems that nothing happens with out it. Not that eating in itself is bad; we all should eat a well nourishing meal every day to be able to have the strength to perform our every day duties. But have you ever been to an all you can eat restaurant lately? What are some of the things you see there? For starters you will see food lots of it, and people who have come to eat as much of the food as possible. But did you not know that too much food at once can make you sick, and or even kill you?
As Jesus was speaking to His disciples on the Mount of Olive one day He told them that one of the signs that He is soon to come and the end of the world will be marked by mankind over indulging in eating and drinking. But was Jesus speaking about physical eating and drinking only? Our answer to this question would have to be no. Beside the need for physical eating and drinking, we need spiritual food and the drinking of the Holy Spirit. In this age of spiritual plenty, one would think that all where being filled with the nourishments from the table of the Lord. But sad to say spiritually many professed followers of Jesus Christ are today eating and drinking with the drunken while their names are still on the church books.
Through gratification of perverted appetite many are been led directly into indulgence of unholy passions. To the greater class of people living on planet earth, they feel under no moral obligation to curb their appetite which leads to base passions. Even if most people long to stop their craving to eating and drinking they are slaves willingly or unwilling to their perverted appetite. We are living in an age when men are content to not live for the future life, but only for the present. As one looks back at the inhabitants of Noah's day, they are quick to see that they rushed on in life with out considering the consequence of their actions to their final destruction. Living for this present age regardless that their deeds of the present every day life casts its shadow forward in the future, and the retribution was according to their works.
So how disobedient is mankind to God’s law today in comparison to the inhabitants of Noah's day? While in this world it is clear we will live in it, but the promise is that God is able to keep His children separate from its pollutions. Not withstanding God has expressly forbidden our union with the world. One marked feature of Noah's day was the intense worldliness of the inhabitants. They were eating and drinking, planting and building, marrying and giving in marriage, not that these things were of themselves sinful or unlawful, but the people love to carry them to a high degree of intemperance. Their appetite was indulged at the expense of health, reason, and finally their connection with God.
This constant indulgence of their sinful desires corrupted them and defiled the earth under them. This same evil has intensified and exists in our world today. My fellow servant leaders there are two lessons to learn. Firstly God is calling upon you to show by your balance life that there is a better way to live temperately in this intemperate age, and that way is through Jesus Christ. Secondly, remember a living sermon is of greater value than a spoken one any day. Join us tomorrow for part two of watch your appetite.
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Our Prayer for today:

Please join us as we pray for the spirit of commitment to true temperance among all the servant leaders of the Lord.  

                                                                       

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These letters are written by Elder Kevin Santucci

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