NEW YEARS RESOLUTION - DIET
04/01/13 09:58
Well, we are past another new year and it’s time for the resolutions. My wife and I belong to a gym and every year, around this time, we see a flood of people join, many times the same faces we saw the year before, and they fade away within a month or two.
When I say “truck driver” what do you picture in your mind of what a driver looks like? Usually he may be scruffy; maybe loud; maybe smelly; maybe over weight. I’m not attacking truck drivers, I am one, and I must work around them. I work hard to avoid that image that most people have of truck drivers. One of the hard parts is keeping the weight off. I often say, “I drive truck, but I don’t want to look like I drive truck”. So, I walk, hike, backpack, work out, and watch what I eat. I have an app on my phone that keeps track of my calorie intake, along with vitamins and minerals. I base the expense of a meal on the calories in that meal. Thus, I try to eat only those things I can afford.
Many drivers are over weight because of what they take in. Usually you can see potato chip bags and candy wrappers on their dash. The truck stop stores are filled with tasty little treats of candy, cakes, chips, and the likes. Sit down restaurants are starting to leave the truck stops while fast food is on its way in, so they grab a bite on the run, eating non-nourishing fast food.
One must watch the diet of their spiritual life as well. “For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.” 1 Tim 4:8. We’ve been dooped and soothed into a spiritual diet of junk food. TV, video games, movies, and even Facebook is the majority of our spiritual diet. Because we’ve spent so much time on these things, and between work and family time, we tend to settle for the fast food teaching. We have sermons on the radio while we drive, sermons on TV while we get ready for our next activity, or I know one who has them on while they sleep. We don’t take the time to sit down at the table and have three square meals of God’s Word each day, we just grab and run. What’s become of us is now we are spiritually unhealthy.
“Resolution - a firm decision to do or not to do something”. This year make a resolution to feed your spirit man properly. Can you afford the fattening calories of Facebook, TV, video games, and movies while eating the grab and go fast food that doesn’t truely nourish the spirit? Take a spiritual diet. Fast the digital junk food and use the time to pray, study, and spend time with the one who loved you so much He created a day just to spend time with you. Become spiritually healthy to fit into that wedding gown for the wedding supper of our groom... Yeshua.
When I say “truck driver” what do you picture in your mind of what a driver looks like? Usually he may be scruffy; maybe loud; maybe smelly; maybe over weight. I’m not attacking truck drivers, I am one, and I must work around them. I work hard to avoid that image that most people have of truck drivers. One of the hard parts is keeping the weight off. I often say, “I drive truck, but I don’t want to look like I drive truck”. So, I walk, hike, backpack, work out, and watch what I eat. I have an app on my phone that keeps track of my calorie intake, along with vitamins and minerals. I base the expense of a meal on the calories in that meal. Thus, I try to eat only those things I can afford.
Many drivers are over weight because of what they take in. Usually you can see potato chip bags and candy wrappers on their dash. The truck stop stores are filled with tasty little treats of candy, cakes, chips, and the likes. Sit down restaurants are starting to leave the truck stops while fast food is on its way in, so they grab a bite on the run, eating non-nourishing fast food.
One must watch the diet of their spiritual life as well. “For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.” 1 Tim 4:8. We’ve been dooped and soothed into a spiritual diet of junk food. TV, video games, movies, and even Facebook is the majority of our spiritual diet. Because we’ve spent so much time on these things, and between work and family time, we tend to settle for the fast food teaching. We have sermons on the radio while we drive, sermons on TV while we get ready for our next activity, or I know one who has them on while they sleep. We don’t take the time to sit down at the table and have three square meals of God’s Word each day, we just grab and run. What’s become of us is now we are spiritually unhealthy.
“Resolution - a firm decision to do or not to do something”. This year make a resolution to feed your spirit man properly. Can you afford the fattening calories of Facebook, TV, video games, and movies while eating the grab and go fast food that doesn’t truely nourish the spirit? Take a spiritual diet. Fast the digital junk food and use the time to pray, study, and spend time with the one who loved you so much He created a day just to spend time with you. Become spiritually healthy to fit into that wedding gown for the wedding supper of our groom... Yeshua.
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