"It is written:
'Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds
out from the mouth of God.'"
-Jesus
We recently started to eat differently. Instead of getting our energy source from sugars (carbohydrates) we now get energy from fat. I've lost twenty five pounds...a more
natural weight for my frame. But weight wasn't the reason we switched to the "Keto" diet plan. We had heard that the body is able to process food in different ways with different effects. It seems that sugar is a major contributor to a variety of ailments humans, especially Americans, experience. What sugars the body is not able to process is turned into body fat. And, frankly, there are a lot of fat Americans...
natural weight for my frame. But weight wasn't the reason we switched to the "Keto" diet plan. We had heard that the body is able to process food in different ways with different effects. It seems that sugar is a major contributor to a variety of ailments humans, especially Americans, experience. What sugars the body is not able to process is turned into body fat. And, frankly, there are a lot of fat Americans...
When we Americans do decide to do something about our physical condition we have a nearly overwhelming number of "diet" options to choose as well as a constant barrage of advertisements for drugs promising to cure whatever ails us. For we believe that if we can somehow manage the physical, emotional or mental pain of life we may actually like ourselves better!
So we spend and ingest and wait hoping for the desired change to our bodies.
While we're waiting do we ever contemplate what we should take to make us more patient or less anxious? Or kinder, gentler, peaceful, loving, joyful, self-controlled?
In our contemplating do we consider how much our bodies demand our attention and consume our resources?
What if we only live on bread alone? A life focused solely on the physical is soon corrupted by the "lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life," with diminishing awareness that we can never satisfy those demands!
Ultimate Selfless Love clashed with Ultimate Self Loathing in the wilderness of temptation.
When the Devil dangled the idea of self preservation to satisfy the wild ravishings of the flesh, Jesus turned to an age-old truth: Real Life springs out of faith and obedience to God's Revealed Word. Seeking first the highest Good, the Perfect Will of God, is the First Priority of Life. There is not a thing in this world that is not in some way better understood, "ingested", and transforming in its effect on every human being than the Perfect Will.
Do we not select a diet plan based on the outcome we're trying to achieve?
Ultimately we want the outcome to be a more attractive me.
What better way to achieve the best outcome of this life than give ourselves to the Creator who knows Supremely what it will take to complete us and make us Supremely Lovely!
So we spend and ingest and wait hoping for the desired change to our bodies.
While we're waiting do we ever contemplate what we should take to make us more patient or less anxious? Or kinder, gentler, peaceful, loving, joyful, self-controlled?
In our contemplating do we consider how much our bodies demand our attention and consume our resources?
What if we only live on bread alone? A life focused solely on the physical is soon corrupted by the "lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life," with diminishing awareness that we can never satisfy those demands!
Ultimate Selfless Love clashed with Ultimate Self Loathing in the wilderness of temptation.
When the Devil dangled the idea of self preservation to satisfy the wild ravishings of the flesh, Jesus turned to an age-old truth: Real Life springs out of faith and obedience to God's Revealed Word. Seeking first the highest Good, the Perfect Will of God, is the First Priority of Life. There is not a thing in this world that is not in some way better understood, "ingested", and transforming in its effect on every human being than the Perfect Will.
Do we not select a diet plan based on the outcome we're trying to achieve?
Ultimately we want the outcome to be a more attractive me.
What better way to achieve the best outcome of this life than give ourselves to the Creator who knows Supremely what it will take to complete us and make us Supremely Lovely!
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Charlie