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Here's a word that we don't hear too much anymore: whet. When you look it up online, the "archaic" definition is "a thing that stimulates appetite or desire." When my wife is cooking one of her epic meals, there is an aroma that permeates our home. That aroma whets my appetite for whatever it is she is cooking. I begin to anticipate how incredibly delicious the meal will be. And I am never disappointed. Proverbs 15:14 says "The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly." (NIV) Eugene Peterson says it like this in his paraphrase, The Message , "An intelligent person is always eager to take in more truth; fools feed on fast-food fads and fancies." I will confess that I am far from where I desire to be in my knowledge of the Lord. That recognized distance is part of what motivates me to go deeper with God through prayer and study of scripture. In fact, the more time I spend with God and the more I dig into ...

Perhaps you remember the classic children's tale of Goldilocks and Three Bears.  The story essentially goes that Goldilocks stumbles across the home of three bears, proceeds to check out their digs, eats some of their soup, and eventually takes a nap in one of their beds. The bears discover her, and she is summarily kicked out of their humble abode. I am not even sure if there is a moral to the story other than one should probably stay out of bear houses if there even were such a thing! But the story does provide for us a simple backdrop for the principle we find in Psalm 91:1. "Whoever dwells in the shelter  of the Most High  will rest in the shadow of the Almighty."  Psalm 91:1, NIV This is one of those great verses I come across several times each year as I read through the Psalms, and each time I am reminded of this simple truth: if I desire to find my rest in God, then I must be obedient to dwell with Him. The rest that we are all looking for is not ...