Spiritual Check-up

Spiritual Check-up
Devotions - Daily Devotions
Written by Betty Lightle

I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 17:10

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:23-24

As we "grow up" in the Lord, we need to have a spiritual check-up occasionally to see if we are healthy. In our examination, we need the Divine Physician to check our heart to see if it is defective. If we have "not the love of the brethren," we need open-heart surgery. If we are open to the love of God, we can even love the unlovable.

If the cancer of bitterness, guilt, loneliness, or discouragement is eating away our joy and strength in the Lord, we must give our permission to allow the Physician to cut out all the abnormal growth that is destroying our victory.

If sores of hurt seem to pop up without warning and are so irritable and bothersome that we can think of nothing else, we need to saturate ourselves in the Word of God. If applied daily, no further treatment is necessary.

If our ears have become so hard-of-hearing that we can no longer hear the cries for help from others, we need to begin to wear and use the aid of the Holy Spirit to help us detect those sounds.

If we can no longer see the need for souls to be saved, we have become spiritually blind and need a transplant of a new vision and zeal to win others to Christ.

If the problem lies in a weakened spine, daily exercises of prayer will develop spiritual backbone of determination to live and do as God wants us to, no matter how heavy the load we must carry at times.

Good spiritual health is necessary in developing a strong, healthy growth in the Lord. Continued neglect only leads to the deterioration of our soul.

Our spiritual health is more important than our physical health as one can enter Heaven physically maimed.


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Beauty in Motion-Who we are

As a society we have abused both out physical and spiritual bodies through what we take in through our mouths, through our eyes, and through our minds. We lack the discipline to train our physical bodies by eating too much, taking in the wrong things, having increased amounts of stress and having little to no energy to accomplish our tasks. And with all that said our spiritual man tends to suffer becoming more malnourished as our physical man grows unhealthier, not having the endurance, stamina, or energy to accomplish our purpose. A lot of us are walking around carrying loads that are taking decades of our lives away because we choose to stay in a mindset that is not willing to change.

BIM is here to incorporate and help balance these elements by the glory of God through nutrition, health education, stress management, spiritual wellness, exercise and mind transformation to intertwine the physical and spiritual. Our bodies are gifts that God has given us so we can do the work he has called us to do. You may be saying to yourself it’s too hard to get in shape, or what’s the use I don’t like moving around and I like eating what I want.

Don’t think I don’t understand, I have been on a journey myself that has included not only weight loss, but my thinking about food and my health had to change, how I handled my stress that had to be channeled differently, my overall apperance from my hair, my dress, etc. a true mind transformation. I am still on my journey but I am definitely not where I used to be. I hope that this ministry can lead you on a path to a change and you will continue this for the rest of your life.