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brightNow Playing: That Spoon Full of Sugar.....................
Topic: Your Health (Spiritual)
Please watch this video........................
Oh Mary Poppins...as a boy I was so in love with Julie andrews the actress playing this character, here she plays the Poster Model for candy coating......it's all palletable with a spoon full of sugar.....yet medical authorities and the dental professionals alike have said that it is not good for you, actually deadly.
Here in a recent "Science Daily" article
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091103121605.htm
their headline reads : "Spoonful Of Sugar' Makes The Worms' Life Span Go Down"......and the first few lines state
ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — If worms are any indication, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Researchers reporting in the November issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, say it might also be taking years off your life.
By adding just a small amount of glucose to C. elegans (worms) usual fare of straight bacteria, they found the worms lose about 20 percent of their usual life span.
So you see that excessive sugar is not good for you, especially since our society has tended to reduce the substance of foods and upped the sugars, and if sales were analyzed I could bet that the sweeter the item the more popular they are...........
So all in this great point of health being brought up....you may ask Tim, this is a devotional blog.....what are you "alluding" to?
I am glad you asked me that.......
We are a candy coated sugar laden society...especially the US where the "milk and Honey" have flowed....The same go for "The Church" we have candy coated the gospel, and the walk so much...people cannot take the straight stuff. We have become specialized ministries....errr...oh yeah that's not my ministry I do this and that...that's my focus....Now you may ask who might say something like that, yet the Pastor of One of The Big churches stated that very same thing in so many words...
Nothing wrong in being an encourager, but not that we should remain in a consistently sinful life....that's not ture Christianity. I am not saying that this certain minister would cognitively null the WORD with the candy coating , yet it tends to cover the real flavor of the Gospel. Mankind in it's general state always has had itchy ears and many Christians as it has been said will be also. That has been foretold in scripture...... That is scriptural...it is coming to pass and has come to pass...... you don't believe it?....well here is Paul's admonishment to Timothy nearly 2000 years ago, and that word is as fresh as bread hot out of the oven as it was then....yet that is how the Gospel is!!!
2 Timothy 4:
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Kind of ironic in this scripture, is that Paul is encouraging Timothy to be "Not Only A Pastor" yet to be the total package.....verse five says "do the work of an evangelist" ...yet candycoating makes money....makes it "popular"! We lose sight of the fact that in this world..."True CHRISTIANS are not popular"! Actually we are down right detested at times............
The one thing we have gotten away from is either the Gospel is just another powerless to save religion or what God Himself claim it is! It (The True Gospel of Jesus Christ) is mighty to save, and the ONLY WAY! There has to be some power to this TRUTH Which is the foundation to all the other truth...right??? If God said it is!
Yet why do we as believers start to candy coat things.....it has been like a spiral staircase where when starting at the top (in purity), one step down at the time only seeing that step ahead of us, and adding a little more sugar and coating it more to where when we arrive at the bottom of the stairs with a "Sweet" powerless gospel (small g here).......we encounter the diabetes of spiritual life...the heart troubles......to where like our earthly physician tells us to eat right exercise, and give up the sweets....or we will die!
Well I am sure you know what I will say next! Our Great Physician Jesus says "return to the truth, cut away the coating and return to the truth!!!" "My WORDS are life , and Sweeter than any sugar the world has to offer and I give eternal life!!!!"
In closing...I pray you watched the video.....did you notice that the end of the song? The kids had wreeked havoc with the "magic" that Mary Poppins had taught them.....what had started out as a sweet way of cleaning things up.....went haywire at the end and Mary yelled at it all to Stop!
Jesus has been yelling stop for a good while , and our economy is in shambles, Christians are the most negative I have ever seen, and they are not looking up, they have no heart, having a poor spiritual circulation, no energy, therefore no walk, suffering from spiritual diabetes!
Yet He is still saying;
Hebrew 12: (read the whole chapter)
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be
defiled;
and again
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
I recently looked at a photo shoot of a major Christian Gala overseas and if I were not told it was a praise and worship service.....honestly I thought it was a pop concert..because they were so worldly looking..the way people were dressed.... Yet God our Father is wanting to pour forth His Balm for us if we just return to Jesus' leading! We are not of this world and not to copy it...We are called to be transformed....
Romans 12:
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
...The Gospel is simple enough for a Child to understand....we do not need Gospel Dogs, and Salvation Cats......The children ran to Jesus because HE was and IS the Savior, not because Peter and John were dressed as some Gospel animals. and James and Thomas did not do puppet shows..but we have done this our kids also..have we not?.........
Selah! Think About It!
Blessings In Him, Brother Tim
P.S. One lump or two??? No thank you, I take my coffee black! :)
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Updated: Sunday, 8 November 2009 4:57 PM EST
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