What Is In Your Spiritual Diet?

We spend so much time on our outer appearance. Would you agree that most of the ugly in this world has nothing to do with how someone looks? Yet society spends billions a year on fade diets.
If you were to look at a spiritual diet, how would it appear on paper? What would be your favorite spiritual snack, drink, or main meal? Is that five minute-devotion all you have been eating for substance? Seriously, when it comes to your spiritual self, you want to be that fat, pretty one. Only God’s word eaten in abundance will get you “fluffy.” So once again, what is in your spiritual diet?
Now, like all diets, you must have self-control and determination to maintain your goals. David said it this way in Psalm 119:30-32, “I have chosen the faithful way; I have placed Your ordinances before me. I cling to Your testimonies; O Lord, do not put me to shame! I shall run the way of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.”
If you have already stopped your prayer journal, this is the day to pick it back up again. Like any diet, you will have failure, but that does not mean you quit. Set a reasonable goal for your time with God and start again. Ask God for increased faith or a deeper hunger and thirst for Him. There are way too many self-serving, self-absorbed personalities at work in society. God needs His children to become solid, unassuming spiritual adults. You can only become that with well-balanced godly habits. Maybe like David, you can say; first, I will choose God and be faithful to Him. Second, I will place God’s laws in my life. Third, I will hold fast to God’s commands, and finally, I shall move quickly towards God’s will. How that looks for your life is the personal side of your relationship with God. Once again, our spiritual diet is an area God needs us to be full and overflowing. Not anorexic and spiritually hangry.

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