"I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe."
Ephesians 1:17 - 19
This morning God did grant me a bit of wisdom, a bit of revelation and I am thankful for that.
I've recently started following the SINS blog and some others and this morning discovered the WOD Talk, an ezine. It was my excitement and reaction to discovering it that brought about this revelation, as I thought, "Another good fitness reading to fill my mind."
See, the last few days, I've been trying to fill my thoughts and mind with thoughts of working out, training, getting fit. I figure if I can replace some not so good things that have occupying my thoughts lately with positive ones of fitness and exercise, surely I will succeed.
And then it hit me. What Lysa has been trying to tell me through her book. Filling my thoughts with exercise and fitness may be better than other things, but if I do so, I will still fail. I will fail as surely as I did when I used to fill myself with food. I will still feel as empty, because nothing can take the place of my God.
So I am setting out to fill my thoughts with his Truth. The verse at the beginning of this post will be my memory verse this week, one that I will think when my mind finds itself with nothing else to do. Reading fitness publications is not a bad thing at all. But I cannot use it to replace my God.
God, I thank you, that even before seeking out this verse this morning, you did just what it said and filled me with your spirit of wisdom and revelation.
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