Five Minute Friday - Consume

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One word. Five minutes to write about it. This is the idea behind Five Minute Friday and this is today's free-writing post.

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What am I consuming, and what is consuming me? I'm trying to eat healthier and lose weight, which means I'm a little more focused than usual on what I'm eating. Consuming also refers to what I'm using, thinking in economic terms. We want to be wise consumers, thinking about where our money is going and whether we are using our resources well. 

But I'm a consumer in my thought life too, and often without being very aware of it. Are my thoughts focused on myself and what I want or feel right now, on temporary things? Or am I keeping my mind centered on who God is and what He wants for my life?

Being consumed by what people think of you is the fastest way to forget what God thinks of you. ~Craig Groeschel

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. ~Henry David Thoreau

It's my choice to allow myself to be consumed by bitterness, selfishness, greed, revenge, anger . . . if that's what I'm feeding on. Or, alternatively, I can feed my thoughts by meditating on God's Word and on God's goodness, and allow myself to be consumed with love and passion for God. Even when we are weighed down by sadness and suffering in this world, and it may seem that grief and misfortune are consuming us, we have God's promise that he is with us and will carry us through.

Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am in distress;

my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my sould and body with grief.

My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning;

my strength fails because of my affliction and my bones grow weak.

~Psalm 31:9-10~

My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.

~Psalm 119:20~

The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God and love for others. ~J.D. Greear

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Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change. ~John Walters

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This post is linked at Five Minute Friday for the word prompt "Consume".

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