What is on your daily diet?

 

It seems that I have to constantly be  vigilant about what I eat and put in my mouth.   Many  television commercials encourages all of us to eat foods that are not very healthy for you with commercial after commercial about  foods often loaded with excessive calories and ingredients that are not very healthy. As someone said  many years ago, what we eat becomes what we are. 

I am becoming increasingly aware that it is important that I be concerned not just about what I put in my mouth, but also what I consume in my heart and mind through what I read, what I watch on television, and what I listen to on the radio or other mediums.     What is digested in our heart, mind, and soul is just as important as the things we put in our body.   Jesus speaks about that in Matthew 15.  

¹¹ What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them….”      ¹⁶ “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them. ¹⁷ “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? ¹⁸ But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. ²⁰ These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”

What is on in your daily diet?    Is your heart, mind, and soul consuming what brings you joy, peace, and  hope?   Does this daily diet lift you up or bring you down?   Maybe we need to spend more time not just counting your calories, but also considering the diet of our soul.  Have a joy-filled week.-  Pastor Randy Wall  

 

PRAYER

    O Lord and God,  forgive me for my focus on the health of my body and for my lack of focus on my heart and soul.  Through your grace and power, help me to feed  regularly on the bread of heaven, Jesus Christ.   Amen.