I would much rather eat a piece of homemade carrot cake than eat a raw carrot. I would be more likely to choose chocolate as a treat, over a radish.  Most of us would rather have ice cream instead of tomatoes.  However, we need to eat our veggies.  We need to partake in things that our good for us.

I like most veggies, but not tomatoes or peppers.  I can easily eat celery and carrots sticks for a snack.  Would I rather have chocolate?  You bet I would, but that isn’t what is best for me.

Remember the song in “Mary Poppins”, ‘A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down’?  That is true, but how many of us just eat the sugar and skip the medicine?  Or skip the veggies and eat the donuts?

God asks us to make healthy choices; not only in the food we eat, but also in other areas of our lives.  We can choose every day.  We can go to that R rated movie,or spend the evening playing scrabble with the kids.  We can sit in our recliner or take a walk.  We can always think negatively or choose to stand in faith.

I don’t know if God really cares if we eat our veggies or not.  A donut now and then isn’t going to hurt us.  He does care about how we think, how we spend are time, how we respond to others and how we portray Him to the world around us.  We are the only Bible many people will ever read.  We need to get it right.

In Philippians 4:8-9 we are told, “Finally,brethren, whatsoever things are true,  whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.  Those things which you have both learned and received, and heard and seen Me do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”

That is pretty clear to me.  So let’s all eat our spiritual veggies.  We will stronger for having done so.