Cotton Candy Diet

Cotton candy is a wonderful thing. It’s sweet, it’s light, and it comes in different colors. It’s also mostly air and has no nutritional value whatsoever. No person in their right mind would live on a diet of cotton candy.

Why then, do many Christians expect to live on diet of spiritual cotton candy? Church services and so-called Bible studies that are nothing more than air and fluff, with no spiritual nutritional value whatsoever.

If your personal and corporate Bible study leaves you hungry and empty, you need to think about changing your diet. Bible study should challenge you. It should make you ask more questions. It should sometimes make you hit your knees in brokenness and repentance. If the only thing you ever feel is the ‘warm-fuzzies,’ you’re spiritually starving.

Jesus called himself the Bread of Life and Living Water. Bread and water. Staples of life. The physical body needs balanced nutrition to be healthy. The soul needs proper nutrition as well. If you’re not regularly feasting on the Bread and Water, you will not be spiritually healthy. Like a regular diet of cotton candy, it will do little more than make you ill and rot your teeth.

Don’t be afraid to let your Bible study be high impact, calorie loaded, and full of fat. Isaiah 55:2 tells us to let our souls delight in fatness, defined as the profuseness of spiritual joy. Make your time with the Lord a feast. Fatten your soul, keep it nourished with Bread and Water, and delight in that fatness. A skinny soul is not pretty.