Anybody out there love a nice GREEN smoothie? I LOVE the color green, in fact I crave one specific GREEN detox smoothie, filled with nutrition but also wonderfully fruity flavored. However, recently I tried a NEW recipe and it was absolutely AWFUL.
My morning routine at home ends with me making up a special morning smoothie with my Nutri Bullet, then I get straight in the car and drink it on my long ride to work each day. This is my morning meal. Once in the car, with nothing left until lunch... I take a huge gulp... and instead of a fruity addictive, smooth drink, I GAGGED. I did not want to swallow it. To be even more detailed, (I don't mean to be gross but....in light of the point) it tasted like I threw up into a cup with "chunks" and then drank it. Of course now I'm driving down the highway with a huge gulp of AWFUL smoothie in my mouth and a CLOSED drink container with only a straw coming up, and absolutely no where to spit it out. What do you do going 65miles an hour with throw up tasting smoothie in your mouth? That's right, you swallow it. YUCK. And then you don't get breakfast for the day. But it LOOKED so good in my large clear smoothie container. It was packed full with powerful nutrients, but hard to swallow.
Todays God Smoothie for me, was also hard to SWALLOW. It comes from the book of Peter Chapter 4. This Chapter in Peter is stock full of GOOD spiritual nutrition for us. To make room for good, we have to detox something bad. The big S word will be what we are detoxing today.
Those of us drinking smoothies to physically getting healthy have goals: look better, feel better, cure illnesses, end all the medications, lower blood pressure, balance your diet and the on and on. Let's begin with this thought today on why we need to drink God smoothies, ultimately there is only one reason: To THINK and BE like Jesus. If this is your desire then today's smoothie will be a tough one to swallow.
If we want to be like Jesus, he went through so much more than we do. He suffered greatly, he was beaten, and bruised. Today we are going to focus on how He was "selfless." We are going to detox by weaning from our old sin habits of expecting to get our own way (from Peter 4:1, 2). Eeeps! So for us to get the full nutrition of today's smoothie, before adding any ingredients, we FIRST have to pray for any selfish attitude we have. The argument with a family member, the new plans at work that others don't agree with, the new special item you want to purchase that you have been saving up for....Get it, Got it, GOOD. Now it's time to mix those ingredients of how to be like Jesus, and DETOX selfishness.
Ingredients for Selfishness EXTRA Thick Smoothie:
1. ADD prayer FIRST
2. LOVE each other as if your life depended on it
3. Give a meal to the hungry (while you go without)
4. A bed to the homeless
5. DO IT ALL CHEERFULLY.
6. Be generous with the different things God gave you so ALL get in on it.
Alright friends, our smoothie has it's ingredients now let's take a swallow, because yes it will be hard to swallow at times, when that difficult person comes along, or you have to sacrifice something you love for someone who needs it more, BUT if you want to take this DETOX challenge then pick up the cup (God's word and meditate on Peter 4 today) and let's digest this beautiful glass filled with God's bright presence, I would imagine a golden tone and sparkly of course. Hard to swallow but worth the outcome of becoming more like HIM.
Cheers to YOU all.
SJ HUGS
No comments:
Post a Comment