Coke is evil

I sit in my office this morning a humbled man. I sit in my office this morning in repentance. I sit in my office this morning in shame. BOY, DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION NOW! Last night as I was having dinner at my CTI (Christian Training Institute) class (subway sandwiches, chips and COKE) I began to feel dirty and ashamed of what I was putting in my body. Why you ask? You may or may not know that the congregation of KC and myself were on a 21 day Daniel fast and of course it, as all great things, has come to an end. But you know, as I was on that fast and only drinking water I began to feel better about myself, lost some weight but also my body, stomach, energy, etc... seemed to be better than ever (benefits of giving yourself to the Lord through discipline). All I have been drinking lately is water, some tea this past Sunday, but that was it. When I decided to drink a COKE last night with my sub sandwich about 5 minutes later I began to feel why cokes are evil. My body began to let me know that I was putting something into it that seemed to be foreign in nature from what it has become accustom to. You know what I mean?

As I was reading my devotional this morning I was intrigued by the title of it: "Choices" (I made a bad one last night with the evil coke). I want to share with you this morning a little from that devotional. 2 Corinthians 5:9 says, "So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it." Your life is a series of choices. From the instant you wake up in the morning until the moment you nod off to sleep at night, you make lots of decisions: decisions about the things you do, decisions about the words you speak, and decisions about the thoughts you choose to think. Simply put, the quality of those decisions determines the quality of your life. So, if you sincerely want to lead a life that is pleasing to God, you must make choices that are pleasing to Him.

I care about the decisions that my two children are going to make in their own life and with that caring, I as a parent, want to teach them the qualities of life. The most important quality that anyone could receive is having and walking in the presence of God through an upright, quality relationship with Christ. God is looking for us all to live a life of quality in our daily lives and to make good choices through His guidance. Just like in the devotional this morning tells us, we have to make good choices from the time that we wake up in the morning until the time that we go to bed and then do it all over again the next morning. We can only make good choices and the right choices when we are relying upon God to lead us and guide us because afterall, we are supposed to surrender our all to Him anyway! Be blessed today and drink water, stay away from the evil coke!!