Not Choosing Wisely
Baby Girl,
Wake up.
Close your eyes and listen carefully:
You have been deceived and it’s time to open the eyes of your soul to the Truth.
You are beautiful.
I’m not talking to you about your flesh. You are not flesh, remember?
The enemy has sold the world on the concept that beauty has to do with flesh. It was not that way in My original design. The flesh was functional. It was created, not for visual appeal, but for operational function.
When sin entered the world, the desires OF the flesh and FOR the flesh took on the whispers of the enemy. Even in Biblical times, it was the outer appearance of man that man considered.
I had to tell the prophet Samuel to stop looking at appearance and height when we went to Jesse’s house looking for the next king. Your society is doing the same thing today.
David chose to be with Bathsheba because he deemed her physically desirable. That led to sin.
Flesh is a source of pride and, as long as it is, it will continue to be a source of sin.
In previous eras, what you now call “obesity” (a sign of poverty and something to be pitied) was a sign of affluence and prestige. Obesity proved that you were able to afford the “finer things” in life. In your era, obesity is a sign of poverty and ignorance; and yet, food has become such an idol that even the elite struggle to put it in its rightful place.
When Daniel and his companions declined to eat the king’s food, it was not because they were watching their weight. Daniel knew that eating the king’s food was not honoring God because the king’s food had been offered to idols. He asked permission to eat in a way that honored Me, offering that the king could compare his appearance to that of the other young men. After ten days, Daniel and his companions looked healthier than the other young men.
In your society, food is no longer being offered to idols, food has BECOME an idol.
Go ahead, look it up…
Idol = a person or thing that is greatly admired (regarded with respect or warm approval or looked at with pleasure), loved, or revered (feelings of deep respect or admiration for something)
As long as you continue treating food as an idol, you will continue viewing your flesh as one, too.
When flesh is put in its rightful place in your soul, your mind, will, and emotions, you will view your flesh as nothing more than a vehicle for your soul and spirit, and food simply its fuel. When your comprehension of flesh returns to My original design, your eyes will be opened, and your desires will change. You will see what the enemy has done and it will begin to make you sick and break your heart as it breaks Mine.
He has taken what I created to fuel your body, robbed it of everything I intended to nourish you with, and returned it to you in a package that looks desirable but is killing you early and debilitating your children. Luring men and women in the food industry with financial gain, the enemy has caused them to disregard your life and health and the hints he once made through media that you might like it have turned to demands that you must.
Eating according to My original plan has been villainized, and those who walk according to it have been villainized, ostracized, and labeled as “extreme” and “radical.”
Ostracized = excluded from a society or group
Even you teased your sister for all those years for her adherence to eating the way she felt convicted, and she was essentially peer-pressured by friends and family - including you - to conform to a less healthy way of eating because it made the rest of you more comfortable. She compromised her integrity when standing alone with everyone’s eyes on her felt too heavy.
To honor your body as a vehicle and to properly fuel it, one must face intense opposition because, when you finally get it right, the spirit of envy whispers to and through everyone around you causing you to compromise as nearly everyone has.
Those who eat small portions are accused of not eating enough.
Those who are thin are accused of having eating disorders and an entire industry has been created to sell people artificially manufactured nutrients intended to replace what the food industry has stripped from foods as I made them.
Pressure from friends and family - those who love you the most - is the most intense opposition one faces when returning to My design. You have been sick for over a week now. Your immune system was not properly fueled to fight what came at it. In response, not feeling well, you fed it comfort foods like donuts, further debilitating it.
Last night, your daughter offered you her cereal. You poured a bowl pushing past the pause. You poured the milk pushing past the pause. You took the first bite pushing past the pause and, for the first time in a long time, you decided the taste wasn’t worth violating your spirit.
Remember that cat and mouse game we talked about last year?
You’re still not walking in victory.
I can’t make you walk in victory; I can only offer it to you.
I set before you life.
The enemy has set before you death.
You’re not choosing wisely.
Back to bed.
LOVE,
Daddy
1 Thessalonians 4:4b-5