Fit for My King...

"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 

your works are wonderful,

 I know that full well."        

Ps.139:14

In the last few weeks I have started to read a book written by Sheri Rose Shepherd called "Fit for My King."  To be honest it's been sitting on my shelf with the other books she has entailed "His Princess", "Warrior Princess" and a couple of others.  That are short devotionals.

This one is different and from searching the internet I found there was even a recipe book to go with this book.

In reading what Sheri wrote about how she battled with eating disorders and then how she finally over came them, her advice sounded like a message I grew up with about eating healthfully.  This message has been around for 150 years and now is main stream.

She based her idea on Queen Esther going before the king.  To quote her " In order to set our minds on our royal call, not on our cravings.  Our diets need to be about our desire to honour our King, not about denying ourselves certain foods". (p.15)

The best diet secrets ever shared are as follows, given to us by our creator:

1. To honour God
2. To Experience Good Health
3. To Gain Strength and Energy
4. For an Eternal Prize

Lets look at each one separately over the next few weeks.

1. To honour God

For this section Sheri uses the well known verse.

"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's spirit lives in you?  

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him;

 for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple."

1Corinthians 3:16 - 17.

Today here in Australia we don't get the same sense of awe as the Middle East or Europe as our buildings don't date back for hundreds of years and have magnificent paintings like the old churches do.

We don't have the society to day that these places were the lifeblood of the community (a source of power, direction and protection.) Like the medieval society that use to start the day with mass and then have various prayers throughout the day. 

But we do have the scripture where God said he will dwell with man.  That the Israelites built a temple so they could meet with God and he could be among them in the camp.  Then while talking to the woman at the well Jesus said it would not matter where we worshiped as we would worship in spirit and in truth.

To prepare for this diet Sheri then writes a prayer of commitment in which she says "I choose by faith to commit my body, my mind and my diet to You.  I make a covenant with You on this day to fast off all foods for 30 days that hinder my strength and keep me from running my race of faith for You." (p.17). 

 I hope you will enjoy the journey with me as I look at each of the various topics she has.  If you like the sections maybe, just maybe you'll buy the book.  (Details are in the Book review sections of this blog.)