I NEED A POWER UP!!!

Any video game purist will tell you that Mega Man is one of the greatest games of all time. Mega man is a straight forward game that’s not about building up points; you have a simple goal, get to the end of the level and beat a boss with an obvious name like wind-man or wood-man.

Recently the Lord revealed some blind spots to me and thankfully he brought my many hours of Mega Man back to memory. While reflecting I felt the Lord wanted me to eat out of sustenance and not out of preference. This led me to a fruit, vegetables and grains only fast and this is where Mega Man matters. Every time I played Mega Man with maximum power as I approached the final boss of the level I would develop video game sloth-fulness because I had the power to spare. My alertness was scaled down, my keen ability to keep track of the boss’s patterns were marginal I didn’t mind taking small hits because I had the margin. However when I came to the boss and my energy was depleted halfway I always found myself playing better, sharper, and being more calculated with the foresight of a Sherlock Holmes and the quickness of a mongoose, I digress.

During this fast I realized that the Lord provides food for us to be sustained by (Luke 4 Christ temptation). We have a real battle against a real enemy that wants us to be full or shall I say maxed out to sloth-fulness to where we take small hits thinking we have the power to spare. During the fast the Lord revealed that eating for sustenance (Mathew 6 on when you fast) will keep you alert of the enemies schemes, keen on who needs a word of encouragement, exhortation, what scriptures to write upon the heart, how to walk in the power of Spirit and not gratify the flesh, if you have to rebuke how to do it in love and how to pray. It was real life Mega Man minus the power blaster, trees, sliding and rush.

See Mega Man is not about having a full energy supply but having enough to play so you are at your best. In the same way food is not about being full it’s about being sustained so your are at your best for the battle. I am really grateful that man does not live by bread alone because if we did we would never be satisfied and our God would truly be our stomachs, never satisfied. So I ask you, do you eat for sustenance or for preference? Do you operate best when you are full or when you are sustained? Do you know the difference between the two? How hungry are you for the Lord to find the answers to these questions? I thank God for Mega Man but more importantly I thank God for himself, he truly sustains and satisfies for the battle and his bread is a means to that end.