HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, January 1, 2025 – It’s a hazard of the prophet trade always to see things in a negative light. The positives are there, too, but only as an afterthought, as something in the hazy distant future. To most real prophets, we are never in the positive in the here and now. We are in the negative and trending deeper into the negative.

That’s one of the ways you can discern a false prophet from a real one. A false prophet will almost always paint a rosy picture of the near future. The messiah is coming! The rapture is coming! Our deliverance is coming! A real prophet will tell you things are bad and about to get far, far worse.

Sure, they’ll get better some day, but only for a very few.

And not here on Earth.

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Isaiah 22:12-13 is one of those passages that haunt me this time of year. People gorge themselves as if they’re starving and goad you to do the same. I have known what it is to go without food and the strangest part of it was that even when I was given food, it was never enough. I was still hungry. I could eat to the point of vomiting and still be hungry. That’s how it is when you perceive at a sub-conscious level that you don’t have enough to live on. Your mind tricks you to keep on eating to prepare for the dearth. It’s a survival mechanism.

I think that’s why the poor these days are almost always fat. The rich are skinny and the poor are fat. It’s a rare poor person who’s skinny, unless they’re also a drug addict or living in Africa. It used to be that the rich were fat and the poor were skinny. That’s how you could tell who had wealth and who didn’t. Now the rich are skinny mainly because they take appetite suppressants or overexercise or stick their fingers down their throats to vomit up what they couldn’t stop themselves from eating. Because even the rich feel like they’re starving. Underneath their smug self-imposed exercise regimes, they’re constantly hungry, only they don’t know for what.

We feast on food when we should be feasting on God. Isaiah 55:1-2 explains what we should be doing. We should let our soul delight itself in fatness. We should be gorging and feasting on God and his Word, not on food and this world. Jesus invited us to feast on him not in a physical or metaphorical or even metaphysical sense, but in a spiritual sense. Jesus invited us to live Isaiah 55:1-2 while also living Isaiah 22:12, with no contradiction.

The point of this article is to get you to live these verses deeper. You can never have too much God. Gorge yourself on God and you’ll move farther and farther from the feasts of this world and from the need to participate in the feasts of this world. You won’t have to consciously remove yourself; it will happen as a natural (or better said, supernatural) consequence.

Gorge on God. Weep and mourn for the passing of this world, but gorge on God.