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32…Healthy Diet

Good morning! Many people make yearly resolutions and one of the resolutions that is typically made each year is to lose weight. People go and sign up for gym memberships or enroll in exercise classes. A commitment is made to eat healthier, even though it costs more money to do so. We start out strong and then within a short period of time, we stop going to the gym and attending those classes for a gazillion different reasons. We tell ourselves we’ll just exercise at home since it’s much easier to fit that into our schedule. Then we make ourselves feel better by saying that eating healthier will make a big difference in our weight just by itself. Does this sound familiar???

So, how is your diet looking? I’m not asking about the physical food we take in, but the spiritual food. Just like your body needs healthy food every day, your soul needs to be fed daily, too. 1 Peter 2:2 says we should want to spend time in God’s Word. “Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow in respect to salvation.”

Both diets, physical and spiritual, will suffer greatly without the proper food. And just like the excuses we come up with for not following through on the resolutions to lose weight, we can come up with just as many excuses to justify why we can’t feed our souls. If your schedule is too full to focus on both, then I’d suggest picking the one with eternal ramifications … your spiritual diet. So, here’s to daily feeding our souls!