Minute Musings...Spiritual Diet

Rich chocolate cake with buttercream icing, decadent fudge brownies, creamy vanilla
ice-cream topped with succulent butterscotch topping and real whipped cream.  Or perhaps
you prefer dark swirl chocolate cheesecake with pecans, or a tasty carrot cake with a thick
cream cheese icing!  All of these things are appealing to the eye, tasty in the mouth...but of
no nutritional value to our bodies.  In fact, indulging in too many of these treats can lead
to health problems, such as high blood pressure, weight gain, indigestion and heartburn!
Most of us try to be careful of how many empty calories we consume.

How careful are we with what our spiritual bodies ingest each day?  Do we nibble at the
"junk food" the world offers?  Just as nibbling at empty calories can be injurious to our
physical bodies, the "empty calories" from the worlds buffet table are harmful to our
spiritual health and welfare.  What do we watch, listen too and read?  These things enter
our minds and corrupt our hearts. 

We are warned in Proverbs 23:3, "Be not desirous of his (the worlds) dainties:  for they
are deceitful meat."  The world offers us nothing that can benefit us.  We will not desire
them if we don't look at them!  So what should we look at?

1 Peter 2:1 - 3  "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies,
and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the
word, that ye may grow thereby:  If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious."

John 6:51  "I (Jesus) am the living bread which came down from heaven:  if any man
eat of this bread, he shall live forever:  and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which
I will give for the life of the world."

Are you living on the proper diet?  Your health depends on what you fuel your body with.
So your spiritual health is dependant on the type of fuel you use to power it.  If you are not
being a productive servant for the Lord, if you've lost your desire to please Him daily...check
what you are consuming...read the labels!  Jeremiah 15:16  "Thy words were found, and
I did eat them;  and Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart:  for I
am called by Thy name, O LORD God of hosts."