Feeding Your Spiritual Body

I walked up to a couple of my co-workers the other day as one of them was telling the other how he did not sleep well the night before. It appears that he watched the entire "Godfather" trilogy on TV, and spent the entire night dreaming that he was either killing someone or being killed by someone. I couldn't do anything but laugh at him. I laughed because I had a similar experience a few years ago. The only difference for me is that I watched both "Goodfellas" and "Casino" back to back and had nightmares about "whacking" people the entire night. For those of you that don't know, these are all extremely violent movies dealing with the mafia and organized crime. There is a lot of shooting, and lot of cursing, and a lot of bloody deaths. My co-worker and I suffered the exact same fate from watching too much of the same type of movie. Five hours of exposure to any stimuli can get into the subconscious mind and cause one to imagine or dream some really crazy things. Once they invade our dreams, the can seriously affect our ability to get a good nights sleep. This is the equivalent of eating piles of unhealthy food and drinking too many soft drinks and feeling sluggish the next day. If we consume too much of the wrong things in our physical body, we will experience physical discomfort. In the same way, we have a spiritual body that can be affected if it is not fed correctly.

How can we feed our spiritual body incorrectly? By exposing it to too many unhealthy things in this world. Now, just so you don't think I'm just talking about you, I will give you examples of things that I need to cut back on doing because they can mess up my spiritual body:

too much TV and Internet
too much secular music
engaging in gossip and slanderous conversations

All of these things can affect my spiritual body and cause me to lose focus on what I should really be doing. What I should be doing is focusing on those things that help to strengthen my spiritual body. Those things are:

praying and asking God for guidance
reading my Bible
being a servant to others

These things can help my spiritual body to grow stronger and be the weapon that God needs me to be. These are things that I constantly need to work on for myself. What do you need to work on? Let's look back on the day that we have just experienced. Have you fed your spiritual body healthy things today or have you fed it junk food? No matter what your answer, the good news is that you can spend the rest of today focusing on finding good things to feed it. This is not to say that you have to completely give up all your favorite shows on TV. It just means the you should be aware of how much you are taking in and how that can affect you. So lets all try to monitor what our spiritual man is taking in. And, let's both try to eat a little healthier from now on. I'll do better if you agree to do better as well. Promise? Me too.

Peace and Love,

Rev. Mike





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