What we eat is important. Fatty food? That needs no explanation. We need to scrape it from our plates, or it will cling to us in ever larger dress sizes. However, how about muscular food?
What’s that, we say? Muscular food?
Yes, there is a muscular food. The story behind this is that our bodies are continually building muscle. Even those of us who look at our arms and wonder where our muscles went are still building muscle every day of our lives. If we do not consume our muscular food, our bodies will strain to do the right thing; then, having no available nutrients, they will give up.
There’s even a name for it. Sarcopenia.
Don’t worry about contracting sarcopenia. If we’re over 30, we’ve already got it. It’s perfectly normal, and we can fight back with exercise, but we must also include our muscular food. Candy and green beans won’t do. Diet soda and ice cream? We’re already on a sarcopenia roll, straight downhill.
We have to watch our spiritual diet, too. If we eat the correct foods, we will build muscle, and with spiritual exercise, we will continue to battle successfully against the evil minions of this world. We start off with our first example in Genesis 3:1-24. Man chose candy rather than the muscular food of God. Here’s an excerpt using Verses 2-5:
“And the woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, “You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.” ’ But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’ ”
The woman chose knowledge rather than obedience, and her husband followed right in her footsteps. That was the start of humanity’s spiritual sarcopenia.
How can we consume muscular food for our spiritual bodies? We find the answer in James 4:7:
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Titus 2:1 gives us another tasty nugget of muscular goodness:
“But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.”
2 Timothy 3:16 opens the pantry to the smorgasbord of God’s feasting bounty for building our spiritual muscles:
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”
For our natural bodies, our muscular food is protein. We need about 10 grams three times a day. That’s comparable to a three-egg omelet for breakfast, a bowl of beans for lunch, and a slice of roast for supper. Without our protein, we’re suckers for skinny arms, and we’ll never win a race, any race, because we’ll be too tired.
Our spiritual protein is found in our obedience to the Lord and in studying the Word of God. If we do these things, and we exercise our faith, we will trounce the devil, and we will win the world for Jesus Christ.
Bon appétit, Good Christian. Let’s chow down on the Word and build our strength for the Lord!
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