Are you Anorexic, Bulimic or Well Fed?

Are you anorexic, bulimic or well fed? The first two we obviously recognized as eating disorders. I am not going into a long discussion about eating disorders; at least not physical eating disorders. The name of this blog is “Which Way is Up?” and therefore will be about finding our way up and out of lifes crap. As I said in my first post, my goal is to hopefully help people through my life experience and the Word of God. So lets look at our two eating disorders since we all know what well fed is.

Now, understand that I’m going to nut-shell these behaviors as they apply to this topic so if you have one of these disorders please read on but then get some professional help.

anorexia- basically the starving of ones self. For the clinical stuff look up anorexia on Google since it is a lot more than starving yourself.

bulimia-characterized by binge eating and purging. Again, Google for the real poop.

Spiritually speaking anorexia and bulimia describe far to many christians today. Finding a well fed spiritually healthy christian is becoming harder and harder. Now thats not to say there are not a lot of them out there because there are but far to many begin here with anorexia or bulimia. What am  I talking about you ask? I’m glad you asked so let me explain.

Spiritual Anorexia

Jesus said, “Man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” In other words the Word of God is spiritual food. So many people get born again but never crack their bible. This includes young and old alike. Now if you don’t eat physical food for a length of time what happens? You get weak and shaky at the least. If you go for to long you end up with even bigger problems. The same holds true to spiritual feeding as well. This gives you an idea of what spiritual anorexia is. And the Devil said, ” YeeeHawww, got me a weak one.”

Spiritual Bulimia

So what is spiritual bulimia? Since we know bulimic behavior is characterized as binge eating and purging, not totally but that is what comes to most people’s minds, then that must mean you are eating, or reading the Word but then what? Purging? How about this, we read the Word, understand the Word and then choose not to believe it or apply it, i.e. purging. And the Devil said, “Oooh, rebellious, yeah.”

Understand that both of these are choices we make. Spiritual anorexia is sometimes due to ignorance, at least until you are informed of what you should be doing. Spiritual bulimia is always stupidity. Here are some terms for you to mull over:

stupidity – you have the information and don’t use or apply it.

ignorance – you don’t have the information

wisdom – you have the information and use and apply it correctly

Everyone fits one of these terms at some point in life and in many different areas. Do your best to be wise with the knowledge you have. Don’t find yourself spiritually bulimic or anorexic but rather well fed, healthy, happy and experiencing all the promises that God has granted you. See 2 Peter 1:2-4.

‘granted us all things pertaining to life and godliness, ‘granted us His precious and magnificent promises,

And the Devil said, “……………” Yo Devil thats your que, hellooo. Guess he don’t like those kind  of people.

If you want to know what things have been granted to you and promised to you, pull up a chair, grab your spiritual food and dig in.