What's in your DIET?

I was working out in the gym today when I started thinking about this whole process that's consumed my life.   Physical exercise is important for your mental, as well as, physical well-being. You can pick up magazines anywhere and just about any magazine you find will have some section on how to get fit.  They'll give you sample exercises and show you how to execute those specific exercises.  Almost each article you find, you'll also see a section on a healthier diet plan to follow with the specific workout.  At the gym, you have all types that come to get their workout on.  Many faces, in my gym, I've seen for the past few years as I come to execute my own fitness regimen.  Some of these people look the same now as they did a few years back.  Having never changed in their size.  Others, have changed dramatically.  I thought about this and remembered in my studying for my Nutrition exam, that physical exercise is a smaller percentage of achieving your fitness goal than Diet.  Diet is the main source for transforming a person's physique.  You can go to the gym and workout everyday, and you may even lose a few pounds.  However, your diet is what makes up the MAIN difference.  Diet is EVERYTHING!!!  What you put in your body, ultimately determines your physical outcome.


As I pondered this thought, I paralleled this with the spiritual.  Let's take FAITH...the Bible tells us to exercise our FAITH.  So we do.  We 'call those things that are not, as though they are'....we claim things 'in Jesus' Name'...we tell people, when we don't feel well, that we are Healed...we speak positive thoughts believing what we say will come to pass if we believe.   These things are all TRUE!  I stand by them.  I've confessed them myself.  But what I came to realize is that no matter how much you confess and claim and exercise our faith...none of this matters if we don't focus MORE on what we're putting in our spirit.  I'm saying this...by feeding your spirit, with the right DIET, you have to spend more alone time with God.  One on One.  More time in HIS Word, with no distractions.  Watch who you allow to hang out with you.  Who are you spending time with and do they add to or subtract from the spirit of God in you.  What you allow in your spirit, by way of, people and spending time in the Word is your spiritual DIET.  It will either, keep you where you are, or bring you to another level spiritually and then the FAITH that you possess will work for you.  


You see, in the gym, some people just spin their wheels on cardio machines because nothing changes physically.  Their just going in circles because their diets don't change.  So we, as Believers must change our DIETS, spiritually speaking.  Change what we allow into our World!  


Maybe, just maybe, the reason some of our prayers and professions of FAITH haven't been answered or met just yet is because of our DIETS.  What have you allowed in your spirit lately? Does it nourish your spirit or just make you fat?  


Just a thought...