Chew-and-Spit Diet

I recently read about an eating disorder called the "Chew-and-Spit diet". You taste the food, chew it, and then spit it out instead of swallowing. Pleasure without calories. Bulimia light?

Many of us do this with Scripture. We savor the words as we swirl them around our mouth. We chew on the words at Bible studies and during our quiet times. Yet when it comes to making it part of our thighs, we hesitate. Do we really need this extra weight?

Taste, chew, swallow, digest... let the Word nourish every part of you. Then exercise these principles daily. This will bring strength to your thighs, enabling you to lift heavy burdens and run from the enemy.

The extra weight we carry might not fit the worldly standards of beauty. But then again, bulimic super models are useless in a crisis.