Eating What Has Been Served ! Even When You don’t like it.

Eating What Has Been Served.

Pastor Calvin Cook

October 10, 2025

 “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” — Matthew 4:4

I remember many times at home at supper time that there was food on the table that I didn’t like or particularly care for. The word came from Mom and Dad – “Eat it or do without.” Sounds just as harsh now as it did to my young mind. The truth is that we as people of God say the same thing to God. “I really don’t want to do that.” “God, I don’t understand why your doing this” and a litany of other thoughts and questions that bring us to reason why we should even have to consider receiving what God is doing in our life.

Sometimes we sit down at God’s table, but we don’t like what’s been prepared. The sermon feels too challenging. The Scripture reading stings instead of comforts. The conversation in fellowship stretches us in ways we didn’t expect. We push back from the table, thinking, “This isn’t what I want.”

But the truth is, God doesn’t always serve us what we want—He serves us what we need. Just like children who resist vegetables while longing for sweets, we sometimes resist God’s harder truths because they don’t taste good at first. Yet those truths are often the very nourishment our souls require to grow strong and healthy.

To reject the food at the table is to miss the nourishment of grace. To humbly receive—even what challenges or convicts us—is to grow in the likeness of Christ. The Good Shepherd never feeds His sheep poison; He feeds us truth, even when it doesn’t match what we want, like or desire.