I'm not much of a dieter...in fact, I don't really like thinking about whether or not food is particularly healthy or not, just whether or not it tastes good. An ice cream sundae is delicious but it does not provide you with a whole lot of valuable nutrients. Sure, I can argue that it has value because it involves milk products, and may provide protein if you add nuts, and you can even use fruit to legitimize it. The bottom line is that it still is an awful lot of sugary calories.Spiritually speaking, we often consume too many "empty" spiritual calories. A movie, a song or a tv sermon can all be used by God, but unless it contains truth based in Scripture, it will only be empty calories with no real spiritual value. What does your spiritual diet look like? Are you taking in enough of the right kind of calories?
"...by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil." Hebrews 5:12-14
