Cleansed

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This month we have been talking alot about clean eating and taking care of your health physically, but I wanted to touch on taking care of yourself mentally and emotionally also. Not just our body needs to be clean, but so do our hearts and our spirits. Now there isn’t one right or perfect way to get yourself right in the right place mentally or center yourself spiritually, each person is on their own journey and takes their own steps. But your heart and soul as just as important as your body. Cleansing yourself on the inside is just as important as eating healthy. It is just as important as being physically fit. Are you exercising your mind to think positively and in the right mindset? Are you exercising your heart to continue to know who you are and what you live for. How do you think about yourself? How do you think about the people around you? How do you think about the life you have been blessed with? Do you think about these things? Take some time to focus on your mind and your heart and you soul.

Now many believe that this mindset, peace or joy is a place you can get yourself to, it is a level you reach of personal satisfaction and achievement. But I believe that the only real abundant life and true peace comes with living your life with the Lord. There is no level of peace that we can get ourselves to on our own. True peace and true joy is in Jesus. On my own I am broken and flawed and messed up, but Jesus is with me putting the pieces back together so I can experience more. And experience Him. I am only truly healthy and focused when I am living my life focused on Jesus and striving after the life he has for me. So how do I do this? One day at a time, follow the Lord and live the life he has called me to. I will still have moments of doubt, of struggle, of unhappiness, or discontent, but God is bigger than all of that and he can get me through those emotions rather than being stuck there in a negative and detrimental mindset. Jesus is the only true way.

Clean Mind Philippians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Clean Heart: Psalm 51:10-12Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.  Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Clean Soul: Psalm 52:5-8 Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor depend on God^[; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.

How do you live your life? Do you have your spiritual and mental health in your routine or is it an afterthought? Is it important to you or does everything else come first? Does your life reflect what you really beileve and feel? What gets you to the place where you are experiencing real peace and true joy? Do you know what gets you there? Do you make it a priority to take the time to do that?

Cleanse not just your body, but cleanse your mind, cleanse your soul, and cleanse your heart. And cleanse it in the right place.