This morning, Jesus is here with His Church seeking that we offer more and more of the soil of our lives to come under His cultivation. He desires even more than we ever could, that our lives bear the crop of fruit that pleases God.
To be fruitfully bringing glory to God from our lives–we need to be healthy.
How Healthy
Do YOU want to Be?
The question that should consume our attention is: am I allowing the Lord access to prepare every part of my life to be productive for His purposes? Here are some foundational truths about our fruitfulness. Here are the three points we will see: God is vitally concerned about your diet; God is also so very concerned about your exercise; & God also is critically concerned about your weight.
1. God is vitally concerned about your diet. Jesus said don’t just eat good food “bread alone” but He said be sure that you get fed by “every Word of God” as we see in Matthew 4:4.
Matthew 4:4 (NKJV) But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”
Be sure that verse marked some way in your Bible, it is a key to being fruitful for the Lord. The Bible keeps us from sin, and sin keeps us from the Bible. God wants our souls fed regularly on the healthy nourishment of His Word.
One of the clearest indicators of our health is found in where prayer and the Word show up in our daily schedule. Are they guarded, longed for, much needed and anticipated? Or are they neglected, forgotten, overlooked, and dreaded? You can tel how much you glorify God, and how spiritually healthy you are by the daily feeding your soul gets from Scriptures read, studied, and meditated upon, and from the prayers that flow from those truths.
Today as we head to the communion Table, are you going there with a heart saying to God: I will meet with you, and eat with you, and let you strengthen me on the inside. Why not renew that desire to stay faithful in His Word, before the Lord right now?
2. God is also so very concerned about your exercise. He wants us to not merely listen to His Word proclaimed, but to become “doers” of what He says (James 1:21-27).
We aren’t to live in a simulator, seeing imaginary images of what it may look like to do something. We are to be actually “exercising ourselves” in godly behavior (I Timothy 4:7). That is why nurturing discipleship is so vital (Titus 2).
The Great Commission states that each believer needs to be taught to “observe all things” commanded by Christ (Matthew 28:18-20). We all need a trainer who comes alongside and shows us how to work out in spiritual exercise in better and better ways.
3. God also is critically concerned about your weight. Then we are to also regularly examine our lifestyles and see if there are any sins that keep tripping us up (easily beset us) and when we identify those, we are to “lay” them aside (or literally) “strip” them off (Hebrews 12:1-2).
Just like a coat that caught fire can’t be left on, or a blanket we pick up and wrap around us that is infested with spiders, ants, or wasps would be ditched as fast as we possibly could—so sin that separates us from being pleasing to God MUST be ditched, stripped off, and abandoned. We are to be constantly abstaining from any type of evil (I Th. 5:22).
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