October 22, 2014 Excerpt The Freshness Of The Spiritual Fruit Keeps Us From Spoiling OUR HEALTH The freshness of the spiritual fruit keeps our health from spoiling. Physically, fresh nutrients feed the glandular system to replenish needs for the functioning of essential areas of our body. With spoiled or stale foods the body is left desolate of needed resources to function from day to day. Spiritually, when we are set aside into unhealthy circumstances the fruitfulness of our inner life will keep us from spoiling. Many people are set aside into living arrangements where the choice of foods they eat is not a matter of choice. In fact, some of those people may not have any notion about what nutrition is or what are the nutritional requirements of the body. For example, most of us know that we need vegetables, grains, fruits, meats nuts or dairy, good oils and water. But few of us realize its possible to cook all the nutrition out of food, or otherwise destroy the nutritional value of what should be a healthy meal. We will eat what is placed before us thinking we are acquiring plenty of nutrition but actually the body is still starving for food for our tissues. What we need should comprise vibrant vitamins which are necessary for our body to function and we need minerals to put form to those functions. In addition, we need proteins to rebuild the tissues and carbohydrates to give us energy. And of course we all know we need to drink plenty of water and have polyunsaturated and monounsaturated oils. But when food is spoiled or stale the nutritional value of the food plummets. In this light, we might find ourselves or know others who are in a situation where the nutritional needs of the body are neglected in various ways. Either by the destruction of nutrition in what appears to be a healthy meal, or by serving foods that are left out in room temperature for too long. When this happens, the freshness of the spiritual fruit is able to keep our inner life from spoiling. While we could develop sour attitudes because of the slop fed to us, we need to depend on the fruit of patience, self-control, and perseverance to keep our inner fruitfulness fresh. The fruit of self-control helps us not to become spoiled with angry hostility when we are set aside into an environment of unhealthy nutritional practices. In addition, blossoming with patience enables us to hold our peace when time and time again we are fed foods we know are of no value to our physical well-being. Moreover, the spirit of perseverance grants us the ability to continue in goodness when the ill-intent of foods served induces fatal emotions. youtu.be/-WgHVLOdhsw
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