MY FRIENDS, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR BODIES IS IT A SIN?

MY FRIENDS, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR BODIES IS IT A SIN?

Ezekiel 16:49-50 declares, “Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, [and] overfed…..” But as Christians we attempt to explain away the biblical condemnations of one sin over another.

The area where Sodom and Gomorrah was, is now uninhabited wasteland. Sodom and Gomorrah serves as a vigorous example of how God feels about sin in general. Satan would like for us to think, one sin in Sodom, was greater than the other.

Prov. 15:26 (KJV) tells us even “The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the Lord.” In our rapid moving society that functions at a rate, which seems at times faster than the speed of sound, high tech, got to have it right now society, faster is much better.

Take for instant our fast food industry which has quickly been adopted as the no.1 food of choice, as advertisements have premiered daily on billboards throughout our neighborhoods, schools, and of course the billion dollar business of television ads costing in the billions.

Burger king promotes its famous whopper and McDonalds its Big Mac. Each item on the menu for decades has defined the expected American diet no matter how much data the food and drug administration (FDA) in our government puts out about the detrimental effects of its over the top consumption.

But my friends, we must remember that the corporate goal is to make these American fast food chains much more of a household name in our homes than the word of God. The media takeover in our communities takes control of our mind, mouth and stomachs.

In addition, their success comes from taking advantage of the fast pace mostly low income parents or single parents in the home, working fifty and sixty hour work weeks with no time for the togetherness of family dinners.

So they offer consumers a quick, cheap, convenient meal Thus, our delicate bodies become deteriorated by improper eating habits which is Satan’s objective, a deteriorated mind and body by the constant consumption of improper eating habits.

Consistent with this, fast food is all too often high in fat, salt content and low in fiber and calcium and the most detrimental of them all, obesity which leads us away from one of God’s precepts that states whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Cor, 10:32 (ESV)

Friends remember it is Satan who seeks all of Gods glory, it was he who said “I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” Is 14:14 (NIV) So if our goal is to be like Christ we must ask God daily in everything we do will it increase or deteriorate our focus on this Journey Christ has placed us on to the promise land.

As I see it, it will be the small things that seems insignificant to us but in the sight of God is an abomination to Him. So each habit that will deteriorate this wonderful body Crist has given us must be eliminated. Paul tells us “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? 1 Cor. 6:9-10 (NKJV) which is everyone “who sins and has fallen short of the glory of God” Rom 3:23 (NIV) with no remorse.

Jerimiah also says “Your words were found, and I ate them and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;” Jer. 15:16 (NKJV) God’s word my friends is what we must have a daily supply of  so that we will “lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, [as we] run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

And one day soon we are going to be able to “lay down our cross, and all it took to get over as we enter God’s kingdom, if we could just lay it all at the feet of the Master today and say with passion and all of our heart  “not my will, by thou will be done.”

So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY