SPIRITUALITY AND TEMPLE MAINTENANCE

Temple Maintenance:  

What is Temple Maintenance?  I am glad you asked.  Temple maintenance is based on Bro. Paul's words that are God breathed  by the almighty where he said something like this, "You are not your own.  Don't you know that your body is 'The Temple of the Holy Spirit' ? You belong to God;  therefore glorify God in your body as well as in your spirit."  It seems that making this body healthy (holy), glorifies God just as does glorifying God via our individual spirits.   Hmmmm? Challenging concept.

Spirituality:

What is spirituality?   Once again, I am indeed glad that you asked such a question :o)...... because I would like to share a Christ Follower's answer:  This blogger believes -- from the depths of my spirit and soul -- that genuine "Spirituality" is Holy Spirit empowered Holy Spirit formation living that is "walked out" when Christ Follower's truly deny ourselves, take up THE Cross and follow Jesus... one day at a time one step at a time.  It is a daily intentional surrendering of our bodies to the Lord as living sacrifices, which represents true spiritual worship.  And this worship empowers us to NOT be conformed to the world, but be transformed (as God renews our hearts and minds through His Eternal Covenant.)  We then can know/experience that God's will and ways are good pleasing and perfect.

So what I am blogging about here is not reformation of myself/yourself to break bad habits or turn over new leafs; but I am blogging about complete renewal of our persons from the inside out by the power God gives us--as we give up ourselves-- and let God take over daily.  It is indeed a "God Thang Honey." And it is an inside out grace miracle that forms us into Jesus own image.

Now I said all that to say this:  I am a whole lot lighter than I was last August, and because of health/holy reasons, I have been convinced that God has a plan for managing this body that will make you, me, us, and we better servants of the Lord; which means we can be more and do more because there can be a whole lot less of us via spiritual health. Indeed, it does glorify God when we make it part of our transformational journey to be healthy in our physical state. This ole heart attack patient enjoys the better sense of well being that comes when we sense God's guidance in doing "Temple Maintenance."

So in the next blog or so, I think I will be talking about Spirituality and Health... or Spirituality and Weight Loss... or as I originally stated... Spirituality and Temple Maintenance... good Lord willing.

Y'all go on out and be blessed today... Especially 2day.

SoJourner

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