Food for thought…
“pssst……yoohoo…..Jeeeeennnnyyyyy…….hey! come over here…..”
Ok, so I’m just going to get all real and in your face tonight. I’m just in that sort of mood. I’ve been trying to do a little “gettin’ healthy” (I try to call it that because the term ‘diet’ does nothing positive for my psyche.)….anyway.. so one of my best friends and I are doing this together… holding each other accountable….anyway.. so I wasn’t going to write tonight, but I’m starving right now and one of my things is trying not to eat after dinner. But see, I have some cookies in my kitchen and they somehow met a friend of a friend who told them my name… and well… they keep calling me… they are sneaky little varmints. I even went into my bedroom and they called me on my cell phone. I turned my cell phone off and then they had the nerve to send me an email. Can you believe that? Ok, I know, I’m going crazy. I just have one question… how come Mr. Apple never returns my calls… and the Carrot family… they are the snobbiest of them all. They NEVER remember my name. Why is it that the Cookies, Mr. and Mrs. Ice Cream, and Semi S. Morsels…..they are always invitin’ me over and stuff. They’re such servants…. you, know.. they just really seem to care.
Ok, enough… I’m done.. .and seriously, though, I really am trying to get healthy in all terms of the phrase. Most importantly, I consider my body to be a temple of the Lord and I just want to treat it with the utmost care. For some reason… Food is my thing…. it’s my comfort when I’m down and it’s my celebration when I’m up. And all of those things are fine… it’s just I’m a little overindulgent. Anyway…so I’ve been praying through some of these things… for instance this week I’ve been claiming: John 6:27…”do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you….”
I was thinking before I started writing…I was like… not many people are really going to relate to this topic… but then I thought twice… in reading that verse… you know… my food is literally: food. I tend to obsess. My weight for much of my life has consumed my thoughts and emotions…. all of which replaced themselves on the throne instead of Christ himself in my life. Thus, a “stronghold” is established. So, I ask you….. what is your food? Don’t we all have one? What are you obsessive about? Do you obsess in pride that you are extra healthy? Do you obsess about perfection? Is it sanitation? Is it TV? Is it money? Is it clothes, or jewelry? Is it other’s opinions of you? ……What is your food? Whatever creates an imbalance in your heart and tips the scales away from Christ…that is your ‘food.’ I’m not saying some of those things above are all wrong… or it’s wrong if you enjoy gifts the Lord has bestowed… I’m just saying that it should remain in it’s proper place…UNDER Christ’s reign in our hearts. BUT the beautiful thing is that once we begin working for the “food which endures to eternal life…. the Son of man will give” it to us. Because all of us who hunger and thirst for righteousness….we will be satisfied..(Matt.5:6) and we won’t have to dwell on such worldly idols. I don’t know… perhaps I’m not making sense… perhaps I’m so hungry that my brain cells are having trouble functioning….I just think it’s something to think about. Especially as women… as we gaze into those mirrors…what are we seeing… our ‘food’? (weight, clothes, comparing ourselves to others, pride at how good we look..etc) or are we seeing Christ in us. It is SO hard in this world to be a woman. There are So many demands; but God loves his precious little daughters and he wants ALL of our precious little hearts…….It is my prayer that we turn our attention to Him… let us “lift up our eyes” and open our ears that we may lose all other distractions.. and feast on the ‘food which endures to eternal life’ knowing without a shadow of a doubt that He’s gonna give it!
hey, I can’t hear those cookies anymore…….. :)
