Twinkie People

Who doesn't love twinkies?!?

 

 

Especially since they now come banana flavored, covered in chocolate, or even deep-fried at the fair!

Did you know that a single twinkie is 150grams of calories? It takes approximately 45minutes to walk off just one twinkie. Also, I have seen twinkies last up to a year in their wrappers...not saying I'd eat that, but that shows you the kind of preservatives that are in them. Twinkies are just not healthy for us. All the preservatives they use to replace using milk and eggs are also used to make rocket fuel.

 

So these fluffy yellow cakes filled with cream that everybody loves have no actual substance.

Isn't the world full of those type of people?

 



Jeremiah 17: 5-6

"This is what the Lord says:

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,
    who draws strength from mere flesh
    and whose heart turns away from the Lord.
That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
    they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places of the desert,
    in a salt land where no one lives."

 

The original Hebrew word for bush is aroer.  In Israel there is an Aroer tree. 

 

They grow in the middle of the desert.

The plant is green, lush, and grows this

large fruit. We would look at it and

call it healthy.

 

Here's the deal though...

When the fruit is opened there is nothing there.

A dried up center with what appears to        

be spider webs inside it. A nasty slime         

runs out of it. The fruit is even said              

to be poisonous.                                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah 17:7-8

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
    whose confidence is in him.
They will be like a tree planted by the water
    that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
    its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
    and never fails to bear fruit.”

 

 

     In today's world it is easy to get caught up in talking a big game. You can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk? God wants us to be fully reliant on Him. Only God can provide us with substance. Do you feel empty and hollow? Honestly, some days I do, and I know that's my sin not God. We are in a world where pretty words and faces can get us far in life. Just like twinkies though, are we lacking substance??

     Got to keep moving and doing, and sometimes we forget that God calls us to the edge of the stream. We are be planted in the Word of God so that when hard times come we have no worries. Today the world is in a drought. Do you feel like the cheap preservatives the world is trying to feed us are not filling you anymore? People set to "do it" themselves will fail. I don't want to be a twinkie. A person who's worth is non-substantial, who's words hold no real meaning, or even a person who bows down before the better opinion.

 

     A twinkie person I am not, and I ask you to look at your life. Are you hollow inside?