Eat With A Clown or Dine With A King

I saw the sign posted at a Burger King on a Facebook page and just knew it would end up being the topic of one of our groups. Sure enough it happened twice this week. The actual wording of the sign:

Why eat with a clown when you can dine with a king?

My disclaimer is that I actually still eat at both although my health says I need to stay away.  The message in the topic is that for too many years those of us in an addictive lifestyle need to stay away from the clowns that are dragging us down to become a clown and move toward a relationship with God that allows us to dine with a king.

In that topic I talk about how my younger days led me to think I was not enough, was never gonna be enough and always wanted more. More to achieve, more to make me feel like more.......you can fill in the blanks here of all the dysfunctional things I did to get there. Then I found more actually provides less. This was the root of my addiction which all of us need to find if we are to stay clean, joyous and free.

There was so much more than a blog can contain but I used the Parable of the Prodigal Son as an example of two sons who felt like they did not get enough from their father. Both wanted more though one toughed it out until he had to ventilate. (Look at Luke 15:29).  In the fathers reaction to his wayward son coming home and to his other son's complaint there seemed to be a complete family reconciliation in a representation of how much God loves us despite our past behavior and many flaws.

Truth is only God alone is enough to satisfy our deepest needs that may not always match up with our greatest wants.  As a reminder check out the Rolling Stones song, "You can't always get what you want but if you try, sometimes you get what you need." So, the thought that we need to eat with clowns (or pigs as the prodigal son did) to get what we want (when we realize that more = less), is completely cunning and baffling.

Read Revelations 3:19-20: Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. Here I am, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me."

​That's what I call dining with a King!