Do you like junk food? Things like potato chips, popcorn, French fries, doughnuts, and candy? They all taste good, don’t they? But they certainly aren’t healthy food for our bodies.
Do you know what else likes junk food? The mule deer that live in Grand Canyon National Park. They eat the junk food left by visitors, and some visitors actually hand-feed chips and candy to the deer. The park rangers say the deer really like the junk food and that once they get a taste of it they can’t resist it. After they’ve eaten a certain amount, they get hooked on the stuff, and it is harmful to them. Their bodies lose the natural ability to digest vegetation, their normal food that God has provided for them.
The park rangers found some of the deer in very poor health and nearly starving, with no hope of recovery. So they had to do away with two dozen of them. All because of junk food.
There are other kinds of junk food too—for our eyes and ears. This junky stuff is found in comic books, bad magazines, television, videos and the Internet. Sometimes just a little taste of this unhealthy junk food gives our eyes and ears an appetite for more. Satan will gladly feed us all we want. The more we see, hear and read, the more we want, and it is so harmful. Soon we no longer want what is healthy and good for our eyes and our ears and our hearts. We can become just like those deer, hooked on the junk of this world that causes poor health and starvation of our souls.
Christian boys and girls, beware of Satan’s junk food. Just one taste can soon turn into an unhealthy habit. Satan knows this, and that’s why he makes it so appealing. The Bible gives some excellent instruction to help us: “Submit yourselves...to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:77Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (James 4:7)). “O taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the [boy and girl] that [trusts] in Him” (Psalm 34:88O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. (Psalm 34:8)). “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:105105NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105)).
ML-12/25/2011