Over Abundance.

'“You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body” (vv.19-20). You are members of Christ, you are a temple of the Holy Spirit, you are not your own. You were purchased by God with a price. Everything of yours belongs to Him, especially your body. The union of Christ with you and the seal of the Holy Spirit within you proves that your body particularly is God’s. “So glorify God in your body.” Brethren, God wishes us to honor Him there. He wants us to glorify Him both through the consecration of this “body for the Lord” of ours and also through the grace exhibited by the “Lord for the body” of His. Let us be sober and watchful lest we use our bodies for ourselves or permit them to fall into a condition as though the Lord were not for the body. Thus we shall glorify God and allow Him to demonstrate His power freely in delivering us from weakness, sickness and suffering as well as from
self-interest, self-love and sin. '  The Spiritual Man - by Watchman Nee


Anyone who know me- and most of you reading this probably don't- that's assuming there are people reading this which is in God's hands, not mine, but anyone who knows me knows that I've always had an issue with my weight.  Perhaps this is my 'thorn in the flesh', I don't know. But knowing something and doing it are two different things. We live in a time here in the western world where food is abundant and unhealthy food cheaper than healthy food. We crave sugar, we become addicted to it and call it an acceptable addiction because it's not hurting anyone- unlike a lot of addictions that can hurt a person and those around them. But truly it does hurt people. I can't tell you the number of times food addiction - gluttony- has impacted my life negatively. I can't tell you the number of diseases that are brought on in part by obesity and yet the addiction to food is so great we simply don't care. Food becomes all consuming.  Truly it is a sin of the end times-


Luk_21:34  And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.


Definition of surfeit
1. 1 :  an overabundant supply :  excess
2. 2 :  an intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something (such as food or drink)
3. 3 :  disgust caused by excess


From <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surfeit>



Satan has woven his web well and snared so many people in that web. We don't look at our over abundant supply as being a bad thing, we don't look at indulging our desires as being wrong. We've stopped calling sin - sin. All the while we point out other sins and have no trouble recognizing those as being sinful- things we aren't particularly addicted to ourselves. We struggle, we flail about wanting to somehow, someway find an excuse for our particular, harmless to others, indulgences in sin.


Whatever we do we have to stop pretending that we don’t sin when we over eat.


Reading that excerpt above, this part - 


'Let us be sober and watchful lest we use our bodies for ourselves or permit them to fall into a condition as though the Lord were not for the body. Thus we shall glorify God and allow Him to demonstrate His power freely in delivering us from weakness, sickness and suffering as well as from
self-interest, self-love and sin. '


Letting our bodies fall into a condition as though the Lord were not for the body…. Have we done this? Do we continue to do this?


As with ANY sin we are prone to, we need to pray and repent, seeking forgiveness constantly if it's a sin that has us caught up in its grasp unrelentingly. We will be freed from that sin, we will be loosed from its hold on us. We must never stop recognizing for what it is, no matter what!


More tomorrow by the GRACE of God! All through JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD!