Get Your Girdle On!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK. New Year's Spiritual Weight Loss Plan, Spiritual Comfort Food. But what gear or tools do we need to help us accomplish these two? A Spiritual Girdle!

A girdle is defined as a light-weight garment that is used for support and to give a slimmer appearance, that encircles, binds, or limits.They help keep things where they need to be!?:) I Peter 1:13 says,"Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind,be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;". We need to keep our minds where they need to be, in order to be sober, or think clearly, to do the work that the Lord has given us to do. Isaiah 26:3 says, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." Romans 8:6 says,"For to be carnally minded is death;but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." If we keep our thoughts bound and focused on Jesus, we can keep our minds internally girded and limited to the thoughts we need to think.Our spiritual girdle for the exterior of our mind is the helmet of salvation mentioned in Eph. 6:17. We need it protect from outside attacks or snares that are placed before us. This helmet helps us, "...be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect, will of God."Romans 12:2. It gives us the support of a girdle to keep our thoughts from "slipping out" :) from where they need to be.If it's not any of these things mentioned, get away from it!!!!!Get your mind readjusted back on the Lord and spiritual things!
A girdle is also light-weight and not hard to carry. Matthew 11:29&30 says, "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy,and my burden is light."If we gird up ourselves to follow Jesus, He has promised to bear the burden for us. When we pull ourselves into a girdle, we don't keep our stomachs sucked in all day of our own strength. We let the girdle do the hard work, because there is no way we could do that allllllllll day long! But, the girdle can! It bears the load. Jesus will bear our load for us! Vs 28 of the same chapter says, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." The Lord will keep us encircled on every side to keep us and protect us. Psalms 139:5 "Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me."
Lastly, a girdle gives us a slimmer appearance. In our Christian walk, the world should see less of us, and more of Jesus. John 3:30 says, "He must increase, but I must DECREASE." We need to die to our wants and desires, and make them the LORD'S wants and desires. The more we walk with Him, the more this will happen. Phillipians 3:10 "That I may know Him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made comformable unto his death."

May we let our spiritual girdle bind our minds on spiritual things, help us carry our load, and keep us encircled to walk the paths of righteousness, so that the world sees less of us! Phillipians 4:7"And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."Get your girdle on!!!!!!!!!!!! :)