Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. This is one meal that I always bypass because I get so busy when I start my day from waking up and just diving directly into work. With all the different tasks and projects that occur during the morning, I even forget to make a cup of coffee. I sometimes don't realize that 2-3 hours have passed and I completely haven't started my day.
One of the other things that I forget to truly start with are vitamins. It's best to start your day with a cup of water for it helps rehydrate the body, and taking vitamins first thing in the morning, will be the first thing my body begins to work with . I used to eat bad food first thing in the morning and that didn't work well for my body. I started to get sick and was unhealthy, so I had to change my ways.
As I looked over my daily routine, I realized I was so focused on starting my work day that I forgot about starting my life day. It takes time to get used to really implementing a goal and routine, but once the habit is established, it begins to feel like second nature.
When I looked at my life, and my morning routine, I realized that I wasn't just missing out on physical food, but I was missing out on spiritual food as well. What is this spiritual food you might ask? The spiritual food is the word of God. Just like we need food to grow physically, we also need the spiritual food to help us grow in our relationship with God. As an adult, do we want to eat baby food or milk for the rest of our lives, or do I want the big adult food. The steak with rice and deliciously made veggies? The steak of course!
I am guilty for not setting my priorities straight at times and pushing time with God to the back burner as if everything else needs to be done first. Why is it that most of us go to God only in a time of want and need of help? That we start to pray or ask for prayer when WE need or want something, but when we don't need anything, God gets placed back on the shelf until needed again? We need to see that a relationship with God is not a one way street, but it is a two way street relationship just like we carry with anyone else.
The wanting to spend time with people, to enjoy their presence, to dine with them. That is how we should feel and be when spending time with the Lord. So today, I woke up and realized, it's time to dine with Jesus. I will not just end my day praying and talking to Him, but I should start my day with Him as well.
How many of us have or encounter those friends that only contact you when they need something from you? How annoying that is when people text you for something you respond to them right away, but when you text them for something, they don't respond even though you see that they read your messages or who are people actively on their phones? With that annoyance, I begin to just place those people in the back burners of my life and count them useless and not a friend.
But friend, God doesn't have that attitude. He always welcomes us into his love and presence. Oh how we don't deserve that kind of love and attention, and yet He gives it to us every single time freely. Now, if we don't invest our time with God, why would we question Him when He doesn't answer our prayers right away? And when we do spend our time with God and it seems that He isn't answering your prayers, be still and wait, for the Lord's timing is perfect in all ways.
So as you start your morning whether you have a relationship with Christ or not, find time to dine with Him and let him speak to your heart. Invite people who know God and just take the moment to dine with Him together.
1 Corinthians 3:1-3
But I, brothers,[a]could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
Hebrews 5: 11-14
11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Rosemary Garlic Ribeye Homemade Dinner Recipe
Type of Cooking: Sous Vide Temperature: 131 degrees (F)
Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 3.5 Hours
Total Time: 3 Hours 40 Minutes
Fill container with water, and heat sous vide to 131 degrees (F)
Flavor ribeye steaks with salt, pepper, garlic salt, and dried rosemary (be generous)
Place steaks into airtight sealed bags, then drop into water once temperature reaches 131 degrees (F).
After 3.5 hours, take the steaks out of the bag and place into a pan with butter to sear. Cook for 3 minutes on each side for medium rare and longer if you want the meat less pink.
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