“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?” Matthew 6:25 HCSB
Food, drink, and clothes are needs in our lives. God takes care of our needs. Sure we have the supermarket and the clothing store. To go buy food and clothes. But those things are minor in our life. If we live only to eat and buy new clothes then we have missed the main point of life. For us, it should be people. when you sit down to eat do you invite others along to talk about God. Do you wear clothes that will not wear out: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control?
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
Galatians 5:22-23 HCSB
My t-shirt and blue jeans will eventually wear out or go out of style but the fruit of the spirit will always be relevant.
We eat to sustain life so that we may help others to live. Fasting is breaking the god of the stomach to find the God of the universe. In doing so we eat from His table through prayer and His word.
We wear clothes to protect our bodies and to protect other people's eyes. But as we put on the fruits of the spirit we are protecting other people’s emotional needs. The Armor of God is used as protection for our emotional needs.
“This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand. Stand, therefore, with truth like a belt around your waist, righteousness like armor on your chest, and your feet sandaled with readiness for the gospel of peace. In every situation take the shield of faith, and with it you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God’s word.”
Ephesians 6:13-17 HCSB
Don’t seek the things of this world but seek the greater things of God.
“Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For everything that belongs to the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle — is not from the Father, but is from the world. And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remains forever.”
1 John 2:15-17 HCSB
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