Spiritual Diets
There are two kinds of diets: comfort diets and do not diets.
A comfort diet is the best friend of Pinterest-loving women all across the United States. It's the things that promises quick results with little effort. It allows you to change one or two of your habits but keep your old life-style.
A do not diet is more about what you don't eat than what you do. No processed grains, no red meat, no added sugars, no dairy or eggs, no bread, no trans fat, no carbs... It's not really a question of will you fail, but how long can you hold out?
Choice A probably won't come through on it's "quick" results. Choice B might give you results, but turn you bitter and in the long-term, set you up for failure.
Too often, our spiritual lives resemble a bad diet.
Comfort Christianity is the best friend of people all across the United States. It promises you a spot in heaven with little real change to your lifestyle. It's the belief that you can live how you want now and still have a good afterlife.
Do not Christianity is all about what you don't do. Do not miss church, do not mess up, do not show pain, do not fall short...
The truth is, like any nutritionist would tell you, you need a positive, lifestyle change. Eat the good stuff, don't cut corners. The answer for our spiritual life might just be the same.
Christianity isn't about not missing church, it's about fellowship. It isn't about not messing up, it's about being forgiven. But we can't be loyal to both the world and God. As Romans 12:2 tells us, "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-- his good, pleasing and perfect will."
Because Christianity isn't about who we were, who we think we can be, or the things we don't do. It's about who God is making us, in accordance with his good, pleasing and perfect will.
A comfort diet is the best friend of Pinterest-loving women all across the United States. It's the things that promises quick results with little effort. It allows you to change one or two of your habits but keep your old life-style.
A do not diet is more about what you don't eat than what you do. No processed grains, no red meat, no added sugars, no dairy or eggs, no bread, no trans fat, no carbs... It's not really a question of will you fail, but how long can you hold out?
Choice A probably won't come through on it's "quick" results. Choice B might give you results, but turn you bitter and in the long-term, set you up for failure.
Too often, our spiritual lives resemble a bad diet.
Comfort Christianity is the best friend of people all across the United States. It promises you a spot in heaven with little real change to your lifestyle. It's the belief that you can live how you want now and still have a good afterlife.
Do not Christianity is all about what you don't do. Do not miss church, do not mess up, do not show pain, do not fall short...
The truth is, like any nutritionist would tell you, you need a positive, lifestyle change. Eat the good stuff, don't cut corners. The answer for our spiritual life might just be the same.
Christianity isn't about not missing church, it's about fellowship. It isn't about not messing up, it's about being forgiven. But we can't be loyal to both the world and God. As Romans 12:2 tells us, "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-- his good, pleasing and perfect will."
Because Christianity isn't about who we were, who we think we can be, or the things we don't do. It's about who God is making us, in accordance with his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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