Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. 1 Cor. 6:13 
Today I went shopping at the supermarket. A ritual I do once a week in an effort to bring food home to my family. For me its now routine, I have a list, I get in and then I am out in no time. But its funny how I am able to embrace the need for physical food but the spiritual food sometimes is neglected. You see the supermarket is filled with food for the body, aisle after aisle you can find what you want to put into your body. There are so many choices that at times you even get confused, trying to find the cheapest and the most healthy foods to eat.


Is our spiritual supermarket any different? Don't we have many choices to select the right food for our soul? There is food for the immature and mature in faith. Do we shop around trying to find out what foods we are the best? Do we check the cost of the foods we partake of? Or are we just picking up things as we go along without considering the consequences to our spiritual health?


The bibles teaches us that we must graduate from immature food unto mature food if we are to discern righteousness. Lets look at Hebrews 5:13-14, "For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil." Here we are taught that we must seek to move from being milk drinkers to solid foods. Are we still sucking on the same milk from the time that we were baptized? Have we now been able to distinguish what is evil? When we were new born Christians the milk was supposed to help us grow unto salvation, not for us to keep drinking when we are supposed to be mature. Let's read what the bible says, "like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord."


You see, when we fill our carts towards salvation we must be putting in spiritual foods that grow us. To grow we must embrace God's word, diligently studying it and putting it into practice. Even babies are at some point weened from their mother's breast unto solid food. We too must ween ourselves from  immaturity unto obedience to God's righteousness. If we have been members of God's church for years, we must be reaching out to others and teaching them God's word, we are commanded to do that.


The aisles are full of many foods, but let us choose to fill our carts with spiritual foods daily.