Until one time I came down with a nasty head cold. I made myself a PB&J, but it tasted horrible. My stuffed up nose and inability to smell drastically changed how I experienced the taste of one of my favorite foods. I ended up throwing the sandwich away.
1 John 2:15 says, “Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world.”
Well, I have loved the world. Clothes. Dessert. House décor. You name it –I have loved it.
So quite a while ago I started praying that God would make these things taste like that PB&J. Flat. Unappealing. Unsatisfying. Disappointing.
I find myself in Target looking at the cheerful colors of the spring dishes in the housewares section (always a weak spot for me). For a brief moment that love for stuff of the world rises up within me. It’s a strong lust of the eyes –a feeling that I could only be happy if I owned these. But then comes the flat-PB&J feeling, an experience deep in my heart of knowing these things on the shelves have pretty colors but offer nothing to satisfy my soul. In that moment Satan’s salesmanship crashes into God answering my PB&J prayer.
“The world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remains forever.” (1 John 2:17)
What do you love in the world, just absolutely love and feel like you have to have to be happy? Take the PB&J prayer to it.
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