Get your Fill

Imagine that you have set down to a very large table that was piled high from end to end with a feast for thanksgiving dinner. Not too hard to imagine with the date so close to Thanksgiving. You pull up your chair to a table struggling to hold all of the turkey and dressing, potatoes, bread, carrot cake, pumpkin pie, vegetables, and anything else you can think of. Your host tells you to take your fill of anything you see.

Thank you very much you say. I think I will have half a cranberry.
Your astonished friend nearly chokes on a candied yam and replies,
'Please have all you would like. That's why I invited you! You're hungry, and here is everything you need to get full.'

'Thank you so very much,' you say. 'Perhaps I will have a sip of water.'
That’s Crazy! Who would ever act like that? If it were us, we'd gobble up so much food they'd have to use a bulldozer to move us out.

Why is it, then, that when it comes to getting full spiritually, we settle for a half a cranberry? What is it that we are putting in our lives that keeps us continually so full of Christ that we can only stand maybe a service or two at church a week?

You find all the time people trying to convince us that we need to go and do this, or we need to be a part of this program, or get our kids involved in this activity. All of these things in themselves are not bad things but anytime you are ask to take part in something that is going to draw your attention further away from God then that one thing becomes a stumbling block for you. That one thing starts filling you instead of what should be our top priority God.
The extent to which you need something else to fill you full is the extent to which you find Christ non-filling. If you find Christ non-filling, then you have found something in contradiction of Scripture, which says that in Christ all the fullness of Deity resides in bodily form.

We've got to decide, is it true that in Christ we have all that we need? Do we really not have to go and fill ourselves with things of this world to be satisfied?
Beware! Scripture declares that in Christ is all fullness, and if you are related to him, you have been given all fullness. We don't need something super-added, extra-plus to Christ. What we need is to daily discover all that we already have in him.

How much have you eaten off of Christ's banquet table? How full are you?"