ARE YOU A SPIRITUAL ANOREXIC?

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When you get hungry and sit down to eat breakfast, lunch or dinner do you praise yourself for such intelligent behavior? Do you expect to get a letter of appreciation from your doctor?

Do you expect people to stop you on the street and congratulate you for not being physically anorexic? Of course not. You eat because you are hungry. It is natural. It is giving into a biological craving. You don’t eat - your body starves.

When you bow your head in prayer do you praise yourself for such intelligent behavior? Do you expect to get a letter of congratulations from your pastor?

Do you expect people to stop you on the street and congratulate you for not being a spiritual anorexic? Of course not. You pray because your soul is hungry. It is natural. It is giving into an ethereal craving. You don’t pray - your soul starves.

Yet people starve their bodies and their souls all the time. Decide that if thin is good, then super thin is better. Decide if dieting is helpful, then eating almost nothing makes super sense.

And whether it is food for the body or food for the spirit one thing is for sure, not eating well guarantees malnutrition. It is why there are bodies that are too skinny and souls that are too skinny, and spiritual and physical health that is bad then becomes worse.

The late Peter Marshall once prayed, “O Lord, forgive us for thinking that prayer is a waste of time, and help us to see that without prayer our work is a waste of time.”

I remember what an old unknown philosopher once wrote, “hunger would never have continued without food, nor breathing without air, nor intellectual life without truth, nor prayer without God.”

Many decades ago, when Scotland was a place of treachery, betrayal, murder and immorality, a man named John Knox fell to his knees on the dock of the port of St. Andrews. Kneeling there, he prayed. And his prayer, so deeply, so fervently felt was a cry of spiritual agony, “God, give me Scotland or I die.”

And on that day the ears of God reverberated with the sincerity and depth of what He heard, and God GAVE Scotland to John Knox. A land and its people He gave him. And Scotland began to change.

Before that prayer, to say Scotland was to speak of a country where evil was too often King. Before that prayer, to be a Scotsman, which many of my ancestors were, was something to be ashamed of.

But after that heavenly petition, after God opened a curtain of opportunity, a Scotsman could be proud. Because after that prayer, Scotland stood for integrity, morality , honesty, and hard work and diligence.

“It was only a prayer,” some would say. But a prayer well prayed cannot only move mountains, it can build them and then move them. “On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth,” said Billy Graham. “A good prayer shapes nations.

"Try to find out what would please the Lord; take no part in the barren deeds of darkness, but show them up for what they are." (Eph 5:10,11).

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