are you making junk food for God?

When you sit there and decide to put God’s name on whatever you’re making for Him, whether it be a book, a song, a drawing, jewelry, clothes, or much more, are you truly thinking about putting God first? Are you truly examining yourself to make sure what you're making points to Christ, points to the truth, not tradition? Or are you making junk food? Something that champions what tradition calls godliness, whether you realize it or not.

This junk does not nourish our brothers or sisters in Christ, and it does not glorify or honor God. Too often, I look at books and other things being made in God’s name and see stuff that is so contrary to Him. One example is books about men and women fleeing their spouses who cheated on them to have a second chance at love with a new person. Maybe this sounds fine to you, but it isn’t. Remarriage after divorce, regardless of the reason for divorce, is adultery as long as a spouse lives. Marriage (which is by having sex, by the way, more on that here) is truly until death do they part

I myself used to perpetuate false doctrine in my work. I wrote stories about men leaving their wives to find new love. And stories with so-called casual sex that could easily be repented of with no consequence. Thankfully, I had a heart soft toward God, a heart that truly wanted to honor Him, so He guided me to the truth.

This guidance allowed me to easily take the junk out of the stories He prepared for me in advance, because the foundation of what I wrote was built on honoring Him. As a Christian, as a messenger of truth, I have the responsibility to make sure everything I put out into this world is something that is truly glorifying Him. Something that can edify you. Something that I can be proud of when I face His judgment. I do not want the work that I make to burn up, and I don’t want yours to burn either (1 Corinthians 3:15).

We shouldn’t be making junk food for God; we should be making side dishes. Something that is tasty but never takes away the spotlight from the main dish, God (2 Corinthians 4:7). We should want people to eat what we make and go to God afterward. We should even want people to side-step our dish in favor of God’s, because that is the goal.

The goal is not money. The goal is not temporary accolades. The goal is not to see how marketable we can make our work. The goal is God. The goal is eternity. The goal is to get into heaven and to be the light that points other people there. The goal is to love God with our everything, to love our neighbor as ourselves.

And because I love you, I want to see you in heaven with me. I want eternity to be filled with people who love and honor God. I want the people who are out there who are putting the world above Him to stop. If you are doing that, I want you to stop.

God wants you to stop.

So stop making junk food and side dishes tainted with junk, and start making a side dish before it’s too late.