Glutton-Free: Cultivating a Theology of Enough
Part 2: Cultivating a Holy Hunger
“I wonder if followers of Christ 150 years from now will look back at Christians in America today and ask, 'How could they live in such big houses? How could they drive such nice cars and wear such nice clothes? How could they live in such affluence while thousands of children were dying because they didn't have food and water? How could they go on with their lives as though the billions of poor didn't exist?’”
David Platt in Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream (Pg. 111)
Reading these words cut me to the core. This was not just the sin of the Christian American masses; it was mine. If I had to sum this sin up in one word it would be gluttony. That scheme of Satan always whispering, “more.” Gluttony, from the Latin ‘gluttire,’ means to swallow. We swallow the food, swallow the excess, but really it swallows us. And it’s a double deceit. Gluttony, the sin that is killing us, kills them too. We stuff ourselves to full while others go without. This should not be. For the sake of the gospel, for the sake of the poor, we need to be glutton-free. Lord, let it begin with me.
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