Can you imagine eating a good meal – but your body never digested it?
The food would just sit there in your
stomach. While the food would age, nothing positive would come from it.
You would get sicker over time because your body never received the nourishment it was meant to receive.
Just like in our natural bodies, our Spiritual “bodies” depend upon integrating our intake into who we are.
However, I believe that many people in the church today are spiritually constipated.
They may know God’s word, but it just sits in their minds, stagnant. Because they never digest and assimilate the Word, it doesn’t become part of who they are.
As a result, the body of Christ is not as
effective as it could be.
You might be vulnerable to Spiritual constipation if you:
- Do not make time to
fellowship with the Lord daily
- Are not putting what you learn from God’s word into your daily practice
- Do not know or are not using your Spiritual gifts to help others
Forgive me if this is TMI (too much information), but when I was a child and found myself in a constipated condition, my mother would say, "You need some 'working medicine.'"
While the "working
medicine" didn’t taste good, it certainly got my digestive system moving!
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