Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
When you are not being used for the purpose for which you were created, you are GOING to feel off, you are GOING to be depressed, you are GOING to feel lost...I was created to eat a certain way. When I DIDN'T do that, I felt AWFUL!!! And when I go back to that way of eating, I STILL feel AWFUL!!! I turn down so-called "whole grain" breads and crackers and other packaged/processed foods with that label because I HAVE to eat the grain right off the plant. Not many foods labeled "whole grain" pass my test. But when I cook rolled rye in the morning for breakfast, it lasts me all day long. I eat beans like they're going out of style. And I'm healthier and thinner for it.
My spiritual diet is the same way. I cannot subsist on a diet of gossip columns, media talking-heads, movies, music and talk-radio that is not uplifting and expect to have a good outlook on life. I cannot expect to be alive for much longer that way. That's junk food for the soul. I just become spiritually fat and lazy. I need three meals a day of spiritual vitamins and roughage. I need long sessions of imbibing spiritual truths from the Bible. And I can't make this an "if it gets done, it gets done; if not, then not" activity, either. If I did that, I'd be as big as a house!!! I'd be looking for the first thing to satisfy or satiate me, which in today's modern diet would be processed foods, fried foods, etc. Instead, I have to prepare my meals. I have to carve out time and put aside other things in order to cook the food that is necessary for me to have a high quality of life. I can't say "if it gets done, it gets done." If I said that, I would likely NOT be committed to this lifestyle. And again, I'd be as big as a house!!! The length and quality of my life literally depends upon this!!!
What do we grab as "fast food" for the soul? What do we fill our lives with that has no nutritional value to it? But what it DOES have sticks with us... the artery-clogging evil of fear and sin that is celebrated and glorified by the world. Instead of spending time with the Lord to meet our nutritional needs, we seek out entertainment that is full of fat and empty calories.
Am I right?
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There's within my heart a melody
Jesus whispers sweet and low:
Fear not, I am with thee, peace, be still,
in all of life's ebb and flow.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
sweetest name I know,
fills my every longing,
keeps me singing as I go.
All my life was wrecked by sin and strife,
discord filled my heart with pain;
Jesus swept across the broken strings,
stirred the slumbering chords again.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
sweetest name I know,
fills my every longing,
keeps me singing as I go.
Though sometimes he leads through waters deep,
trials fall across the way,
though sometimes the path seems rough and steep,
see his footprints all the way.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
sweetest name I know,
fills my every longing,
keeps me singing as I go.
Feasting on the riches of his grace,
resting neath his sheltering wing,
always looking on his smiling face,
that is why I shout and sing.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
sweetest name I know,
fills my every longing,
keeps me singing as I go.
Soon he's coming back to welcome me
far beyond the starry sky;
I shall wing my flight to worlds unknown;
I shall reign with him on high.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
sweetest name I know,
fills my every longing,
keeps me singing as I go
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Where did I go wrong? When did the focus of my life move away from Jesus? When was the focus of my life ever ON Jesus to begin with???? Why is Jesus such a sweet name? How does He fill our every longing?
When will I just let go and accept all this?
Labels: God's Word, this is me before, veganism
posted by Marcian @ 1:45 PM
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