Yesterday morning after my workout my 10yo, Seth, was laying in my bed keeping warm from the chilly morning air. I layed down next to him and said, "Ah it feels good to workout! When we use our body for what God intended it makes up happy and feel better."

Since we've been studying how to glorify God in our catechism bible study God gave me a great picture of what it's like when we do not treat ourselves as He intended.  We're miserable, and it doesn't work long term. 1 Corinthians 3:16 says that we are God's temple. What is a temple? And how do you treat it? A temple is sacred, special, and holy. It reminded me of when God told Moses to take off his sandles because he was standing on Holy ground. How many times do we consider ourselves to be a holy temple of God? I know I sure don't most of the time. 

It's like I said to Seth, a car can't run on KoolAid. Oh it might for a very short time then it will die. We are designed the same way! We're not designed to run on KoolAid ( or any number of other tasty morsels available today), we will for a sort time then we will have ill effects and eventually die because of it. To properly glorify God and enjoy him forever, we need to give our body, our temple, what God designed it to have.  Now, I know there's biblical debate among Christians about what we should/shouldn't eat or what God meant us to eat . . . but I think we can all agree that Twinkies, french fries, pop, and a sundry of white foods are not something to bring to the temple to sustain it.

Thankfully, God made our temples to endure such abuse . . . for a while. An occasional indulgence is not harmful, but trying to sustain ourselves on food that is lacking true nutrients (ok that one is debateable too with severe soil erosion) will not only make us unhealthy, but unhappy because we're not designed to live that way.  Romans 12:1 tells us to offer our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - which is your spiritual worship. Eating healthy is worshiping God - because we're doing what the Creator designed us to do.

As I was getting ready to write up something else - this song was playing. Shawn's Ripen CD is a wonderful worship album. At first it seems strange, but the more you listen to it the more it grips your heart with it's simplicity . . .

I Want to be Ready   
by: Shawn McDonald

I want to be ready.
When the Son of Man, He comes.
To lay claim to Him, and Him alone.
I want to be ready
To stand in His sight.
For His eyes to gaze upon me
In His glory and might.

I want to be ready. I want to be ready. I want to be ready
For Him and Him, alone. I want to be . . .

I want to be ready
To cry out His name
To lay up in His arms
And delight in His fame

I want to be ready
To be embraced by His love
For the Almighty
To take me up above
To gaze upon Your throne,
To give You all I own, oh, my King
To fall upon my knees, to give you all the glory

I want to be ready. I want to be ready.
I want to be ready . . . for You alone