Eze 16:27 Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, that are ashamed of thy lewd way.
That sums it up perfectly for us awakened dieters. Our ordinary food was extraordinary and now it is diminished. We have been delivered to the sluggish metabolisms and it works against us at the slightest variant in our diet routine. We fall off the wagon one bump at a time and we are ashamed at our lewd relapses.
O.K, I did add some writer liberties in this descriptive passage, but I assure you we all have days that feel like that. It is so difficult to live the "perfect" diet day, day-in and day-out. It becomes burdensome to know that although we have long ago repented at our gluttony ways, our body does not react immediately. It is even harder to come to grips that it was God that stretched out His hand upon us to catch our attention in this manner.
But such is life. We can now fully conscious of the fact, feed the flesh, or feed the spirit. The spirit is so much more fulfilling, yet we have become so familiar with the flesh that we hate to lose touch with it. Our encouragement comes that God is Spirit and those that worship Him must worship Him in the spirit. Is that enough to make us pass up that next meal that will be too abundant for the body to process without punishment? We have choices, and we have free will. Let us choose to be delivered from the daughters of the Philistines!
1.) I believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, without error as originally given; it is the final and infallible authority in matters of faith and practice.
2.) I believe in the Trinity, one God is Three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
3.) I believe that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh, that He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, and rose bodily and literally on the third day.
4.) I believe man is by nature lost and in need of a Savior. By repenting of sin and accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior (by faith alone), we become right with God: our sins are forgiven, heaven is our home, and we will live with our Lord and other believers for ever. Good works may evidence our salvation, but we are saved by God's grace apart from our works.
5.) I believe that those who have not received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior will be separated from God and experience His judgment forever.
6.) Jesus will one day return to to establish His Kingdom. He will judge the living and the dead.
