Day 2

Day 2 – June 5, 2009

So yesterday I started on a new journey.  Okay then, not that new, but still new in my approach to it.  Thinking about what I ate, and I can see the choices that were not necessarily the best.  While the food itself was not bad, the quantity nullified any health benefits I would have gained and worked against me instead of for me.  It seems that is a running theme throughout my life…the excess ruins the good intent.  This is not just food, but in all areas of my life.  I see my relationship with others, and even my service. I have such good intentions and at times I could just burst with the ideas popping up in my head.  Yet, they don’t always reap the benefits I expected.  Sometimes, and this is hard to say, I am just too much.  I want to do good, yet my good is evil spoken of.  That is lack of wisdom on my part.  That over zealousness is better suited in my praises to God – not so much anywhere else.  The issue then becomes a craving of my flesh for more food, more praises, more “well done”, more acknowledgement, more and more of the fleshly, lustful appetites that consume me in the end.  I am thinking of the Apostle Paul, (this man was truly inspired by God), in the end he says, the body gets destroyed.  What therefore I ask myself, does it profit me to feed it with things that are to my detriment?  I should treat my body as it was intended, as it is not my own, but for the Lord.

1 Corinthians 6:13 (New International Version)

13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Prayer:

God, food for the body and the body for food, is the repeated words of my mind.  Father, it is written that my body is for you. It is not meant for sexual immorality and fleshly perversions, including gluttonous indulging.  Father, forgive me of the things I have subjected this body to, and help me now in my steps to surrender.  Lord, give me the “know how” to do what I should, and the wisdom to know just how much.  Father, my body is yours.  Help me to be a good steward over it’s care, in Jesus’ name. Amen.