Scriptures And Craving

 

I have read a ton of nutrition books and one of them is the most effective for me - a simple matter of craving (a life-long hobby). Dr. Joel Fuhrman is my guru for that simple matter.

As he wrote with simplicity - we often do not enjoy foods which are new to us, so we cater to those items which make us desire them. 

The irony for this error is our craving for chocolate, sugar, salt, desserts, fast foods, pizza, desserts of all kinds, crackers, popcorn, barbeque steaks and many more. Now you are hungry, maybe even starving (as we call craving).

I had Fuhrman on my bookshelves but did not read it. However, once I did (after being shocked by a diabetic reading), I devoured every page of the book. In steps for three years I removed most of the processed, sugared, oily, salt, fat foods, I lost 60 pounds (slow over 3 years). I also lost my craving for most of the fattening foods, craving for what really helped.

Scriptures Also Cause Craving 

When Used Wisely

When I was baptized, soon after birth, I listened carefully to the words spoken, the Gospel and the Promises. My mother was especially kind and eager to help my gradual steps forward. She taught Sunday School, helped me on the piano, and taught me the 23rd Psalm. Many decades later I read her those same words as she died.

I was baptized with the King James Version and came back to that Bible many years later. New translations were like candy, often given away, but they achieved many levels of ruin the Book.

The turning point came from a Lutheran layman who said, "Greg, I like your Christian News articles, but why are you not using the KJV?" 

I did not have a KJV disc for the computer, so he gave me one. Making the KJV 100% - except for easy quotes - I used the best and most accurate Bible from that time on. 

I found using the KJV a delight, because those older words, which are few, are much more precise and melodic than than the junk food of fly-by-night Bibles.

Bethany members and friends know. BibleJohn and his sainted wife loved to see boxes and boxes of KJVs in all forms (but never) diluted. He made changes to an area where people craved getting a new KJV, a small KJV, a prison KJV, and a super-giant KJV. BibleJohn's funeral was an ornament to his energy and love for the Scriptures.

Colossians - So Clear And Filled with Wisdom

 

The Colossians graphic is so beautiful in words and art that I had to feature it.

Colossians 3:16-17

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Paul's words, inspired by the Holy Spirit, are short, condensed, and clear, as if he had to get everything across to his people. Being far away certainly made him long for the friendships and faith from a distance. 

One way to get to know  a portion of the New Testament is to think, "I know this book but not to well," or even "What is this short and clear booklet?"

2 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

Collossians 2:3-9

3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:

7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

 

The young ones catch on fast!

Every time!

I had trouble getting the computer camera to be angry with the computers. The same equipment worked another way when I used them before.

"Woe! Woe! Thrice woe!" That is Shakespeare, I think.

My response was to let the new response work on the software. The trial lasted about one second on each computer. 

"Aha!" That coincided with the recent, silent improvement. 

I found a photo of Augustana College, Rock Island, which reminded me of my alma mater not letting me use the camera in the library, a place where I had read and glued many times. We had no computers then. I repaired worn out library copies as part of my income. 

The Denkmann Library in the background is now listed as a "building."