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“Whether therefore ye eat, or
drink, or whatsoever ye do,
do all to the glory of God.”(
1 Corinthians 10:31)
Eating for the Glory
by Troy Pearsall
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(1 Corinthians 6:19)What?
Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For some reason these words seem
to ring out in my mind more than any others. It was as if God was telling me exactly
what God wanted me to do. I have a deep distain for the size of the Christian
church not the number of members but the girth of its members.
I felt it very difficult to say
as a Christian that I was delivered but my body was still suffering from
diabetes, and heart disease, sleep apnea and any number of other weight related
sickness.
What God is this
that would delivery me and I still suffered from the same sickness and disease
as everyone else that had not given their life to Jesus Christ. Some how I knew that delivery was much more than a state of
mind, it had to be real.
Now living a life
 in
the gym, being a bodybuilder, gymnast, and playing football put
me around people that were always in pretty good physical shape. And these
people were not necessarily the godliest people I had
ever met. It seemed unfair that they would have everything in life and those
that were truly
living their life correctly should not.
Then it hit me, the big
difference was all those people cared about their body, they treated it with
the respect in what they ate, how they exercised, and in proper conditioning
and lotion for their skin. They worshiped their bodies as if they were
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We live in a world where we are taught that it’s OK to be a little Overweight,
where parents teach their children that God loves them no matter what they look
like. However in truth God's will is far from its Ok to be overweight. I would be bold enough to say
that not only does God not want us to be overweight, God wants us to be as
healthy as possible. God wants us to be healthy and physical fit. God wants us
to be mindful of what we eat; God wants us to be delivered physically. as well
as spiritually!
Am I saying that God cares
about how we eat? Absolutely! And here are a few reasons why;
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(1Corinthians 10:31) says, “Whether therefore
ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
Now contrary to what you may think this does not mean to simply
ask the blessing before a meal, it means to eat is such a way that your
thoughts and are toward glorifying god with what you eat.
Paul tells us that our body is a temple of the Holy Ghost. Try to understand
how deep this statement is, it says within us lives the very spirit of God!
Now not one God fearing Christian would think about defiling a church, however
we would stuff our bodies with junk and even good foods to such a way that the
food which God has blessed our own passions have cursed!
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(1Corinthians 6:20) for ye are bought with a
price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which is God’.
Now we can see that it is more than a physical obligation to
take care of our bodies it is a moral and spiritual requirement. We have
stewardship of our bodies but not ownership. This vessel we call our body
belongs to God. It was paid for by the blood of Christ not just our spirit but
also our physical self.
This is our requirement to take
care of our body, this is God’s desire that we take care of our body.
God Bless Troy
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