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August 20, 2006
Revealing the heart
If you have recently read my wife's blog you have read about how we have embarked on a forty day diet to help my colon heal. We're not sure if this is a complete life change or just a forty day detox. And trust me on the detox, going cold turkey from carbs, sugars and caffiene is rough on the body. at least for the first few days. I feel very fatigued and moody, but have resolved to give it the full forty days before making a call on the rest of my life.
Through the first few days God has been showing me some things deep in my heart. The main thing being how much I desire to be just like everyone else. I don't like to stand out in any way. I remember when I moved to a new school in junior high and I dressed and thought about life differently from everyone else. I quickly learned to be like everyone else or face the taunts and nicknames of my classmates. Now I am choosing a distinctly different diet from everyone I know and it feels very vaulnerable. I just want to fit in. But the truth God has been reminding me of is that to be holy, as he has called me to be, means being set apart. Or more simply, different. Being a Christian automatically makes me different from the world. This is not something I can run from or hide from. It is something I must face and accept as part of my identity in Christ. And with God's grace I will.
"be like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior." 1 Peter 1:15 NAS
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