Our quality of life is related to what we eat, and I’m not talking about food. Our bodies eat what our five (5) senses put into it and putting food into our bodies through our mouths is just one of the five.
Just like our bodies get dirty being out and about, that same process is how the body eats without the mouth. When we pattern the ways of this world into our every-day’s, we’re shaping our lives to become that which we’re considering — good or bad. Our body through its senses is constantly sending data to our mind, and our mind helplessly draws it in like a magnet.
Too much of the same things every day, over time, is what the body will soon require. This is called the formation of a habit, and can turn into a rut when it feels as if the routines have boxed us in. If the body doesn’t get what it’s craving, it will magnify the stimulus trying to force our mind to cooperate, and continuously giving into the influences is called addiction. Example:
Once upon a time one beer could make you tipsy, but continue to drink beer, and one is not enough.
Once upon a time a kiss and embrace were pretty steamy in a movie, but today, it has to be practically porn; it’s the same with foul language. Once upon a time TV went off at midnight, but today if something like that happened the stations contact info would explode with calls. Why, because we eat that stuff, and have advanced the desire for more. No wonder we’re stressed, depressed, and feel as if we’re spinning our wheels, sinking, nervous and full of anxiety. “It’s what we’re eating.”
(1st John 2:15-17), tells us, “Do not love the world or the things in the world because if anyone loves the world, the love of the God is not in him, because the only thing that’s in the world is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, and those things are not of God, they belong to the world, and the world is passing away, and the lust that`s in it” ….
There it is, the three things that keeps us taking one step forward, and two steps backwards; without the assistance of Satan, and certainly not of God; we’re born with it. I’ll explain.
The world can only offer us its hunger for physical pleasure; wishes for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions.
The lust of the flesh consists of gratifying the want for physical pleasure, trying to please our sinful selves by means of fornication, adultery, incest, sodomy, and all unnatural yearnings; including the overindulgence and overconsumption of eating/gluttony and drinking/drunkenness; reveling aka [also known as], cutting loose/unplugging.
The lust of the eyes is the love, allurement, and desires for all the things we see the world can offer us, and it’s made up of worldly objects that are visible such as gold and silver, houses, land, and possessions, aka [also known as], bling-bling. The eyes of men are never satisfied, aka [also known as], covetousness. (Proverbs 27:20).
The pride of life is our ambitions; being overly proud of what we’ve accomplished; found in the achievements and assets that we’ve acquired, such as impressive and luxurious living, being rich in diet, owning costly apparel, having fine first class and upfront seats in places of assembly, when there’s many in attendance.
This world and everything that people want in it is passing away, in many cases for some it seems as if it already has but kept alive by our passions for it. This is why when we indulge in the things of the world, we hate ourselves when we find out it wasn’t all what we thought it would be. If we could have only thought differently, we wouldn’t be so dissatisfied with ourselves afterwards, so now, empty feelings begin to persecute or soul; why, because the lust of the world is dead. It offers pain, sorrow, and destruction; camouflaging truth with a mirage, deploying Satan’s will to kill, steal, and destroy – (John 10:10).
We defend our mind’s imagination and thoughts. The World battles for our mind because it understands and recognizes the value of endless persuasion, and urging, as it attempts to initiate what we ought to believe, derailing our innate connection to God.
We’ve got to scan continuously what our senses gather, questioning and processing all data that tries to pull our anchor from God, so as not be captured responding to the deceptions that’s spark our vulnerability for the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life, and our defense of it; eating blindly of what’s ungodly.
Get this understanding… In Jesus’ Name, amen.
Gaidi