1 Cor 9:23-27 And I do all things for the sake of the gospel, that I may become a fellow partaker of it. Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. And everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I buffet my body and make it my slave, lest possibly, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Paul buffets or disciplines his body we tend to buffet ours at Sizzler. We overindulge, we struggle knowing when to stop, we give reasons why but in the end we lack discipline. Fasting reveals the measure of foods mastery over us, or television, or facebook or whatever we submit to again and again to conceal the weakness of our hunger for God. Before we get dominion over spiritual powers that rule over our lives we first need to get dominion over the Angus beef burger!
Proverbs 25:28 Like a city that is broken into and without walls Is a man who has no control over his spirit.
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