The Main Meal

June 10, 2025 Shelly Wilson

I really hope you can hear my heart here but this needs to be brought to the light.

I have used many devotionals that have fed into me on a daily basis. Different ones in different seasons. Some have stayed with me and I re-read them yearly.

But they are never my only source of spiritual food.

I write prophetic poetry and ponderings that will likely serve as confirmations and encouragement for what Jesus is doing, shifting, and desiring in your life.

But…it should never be your main meal.

If a 5-minute devotion is your only source of Christ…then you’ll grow very little in and with Him.

I see a lot of leaders push “Just do 5 minutes.”

Certainly there are times for that and Christ is faithful but if this is a lifestyle then it is not really a heart learning, longing for, and loving well Christ.

It’s just a check mark on our to-do list.

You’ll not find that theology here.

Studying to show yourself approved is just that. Studying. It’s like being in a classroom where you’re digging into definitions of words, meanings of phrases, historical cultures, and tracing the very nature of God through stories, situations, and the scriptures.

Church is also not to be your only time or place for spiritual food. It has its place certainly but it is not the fullness of relationship Jesus desires with us.

A lot of folks are going astray because we really have not locked into the word and allowed the word to transform us.

We love videos, podcasts, sermons, etc. I do too. Again, all of those are wonderful partnering tools to growth in Christ. But even then, they should not be my only source of food.

Do you spend time with the King like you spend time with people?

Breaking open the book?

Worshiping who He is?

Praying in a way that is honest and intimate conversation because He knows you and you know Him?

Or are we giving Him about 5 minutes?

5 minutes with me wont teach you a lot about me. You’ll make a lot of assumptions, decide what you think I believe or don’t believe, and likely misunderstand many things about me.

You’ll come to a lot of conclusions that’ll be wrong and you won’t understand why I do what I do. But…once you spend time with me you will find out who I really am, what I really stand for, why I stand for it, and what my heart is really like.

The same is true with Christ.

Learn Him well. Love Him well. Linger with Him long. Let others just be helpers but He must be the main meal.