Where's The Beef? 2/9/2015

Good Morning,

Monday already? Where do the weekends go? I am starting the day extremely early in anticipation of a lot of work. My mug is filled with Door County Highlander Grog Coffee. Off to work in a few minutes, deep in thought.

"Where's the Beef" was a popular phrase used in advertising more meat on hamburgers by knocking the other burger places as not having enough meet on their burgers.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Where's the beef?" is a catchphrase in the United States and Canada. The phrase originated as a slogan for the fast food chain Wendy's. Since then it has become an all-purpose phrase questioning the substance of an idea, event, or product

First airing on January 10, 1984, the original commercial featured three elderly ladies examining an exaggeratedly large hamburger bun topped with a minuscule hamburger patty.

So what does this have to do with a daily devotional? I am a meat and potatoes kind of guy. I can do a salad occasionally, but it's the meat that I enjoy. So most of the salads I eat have some type of meat in them. Blueberries and alfalfa sprouts are best left to feed rabbits in my book.

I was listening to a radio sermon yesterday and the speaker was very eloquent and quite dynamic. I can see where many people would want to listen to him. Although it was entertaining, the message was lukewarm at best. The content was missing and although it could provide a "warm fuzzy" for a little while there was no meat? It was designed to hold a place, not advance. It was so politically correct that it was Biblically weak. At the end there was a second speaker who came on and advised people that if any part of the message brought them to a point of needing more that they should call a local church for assistance or a toll free number and someone would talk with them. Not once was the name of Jesus mentioned as the answer to a need. Jesus is the meat needed in today's world of chaos and confusion. Anything less is a blueberry salad mixed with tofu. It lasts a little while but really won't sustain you very long. So be careful to have a Spiritual diet that contains Jesus, anything less is just an air biscuit.

John 14:6         
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me

Acts 4:12        
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

God bless,

Marty