Curious Conviction.

Bubba Gump Shrimp, San Francisco, CA 2014

"Look at my servant, whom I strengthen. He is my chosen one, who pleases me. I have put my spirit upon him. He will bring justice to the nations."-Isaiah 42:1

"And now the Lord speaks- the one who formed me in my mother's womb to be his servant, who commissioned me to bring Israel back to him. The Lord has honored me, and my God has given me strength.

"Then he said to me, "This is what the Lord says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Heaven's Armies.


Have you ever completely judged something or someone and gone completely against it because of the effect or possible effect it might or might not have on your own life? Sacrificing is not just for the lent season people and God has certainly been stirring that tremendously in my heart over the last couple of weeks.

A couple of weeks ago my coworkers came back from Cross Fit with this wild idea. a few of them were going to do this "whole 30" cleanse/diet/torture/terrible idea. This was my initial thought on it. I mean the rules are that you can eat anything except the following:

-Dairy
-Real or processed sugars
-Lugumes (A type of plant with seeds that grow in long cases or pods)Did you know Peanuts are      Lugumes?!...This is a terrible idea.
-Grains
-Alcohol

Miserable! While they explained it I built this wall and was very against it. Thinking upon how it would effect my everyday performance based of the things I felt I absolutely could not live with out to sustain me... There's no way that my body could handle not having peanut butter as a main source of Protein. I mean common, do you want me to die?!

As friends began on this journey I began to do some research on the "Whole 30" and began to find that there are actually a lot of benefits to doing this whole thing. I'm being stubborn. The interest of this initially was because I felt I reacted rather harshly to this obedient thing that my co workers wanted to try. That quickly turned to conviction and pondering. Why did I hate the idea so much of giving things that were so steadily on my diet that I knew gave me energy. That I thought were "sustaining" me. When actually thinking more deeply about it, many of these things could be hurting me and my serving performance.

I have been struggling with moderate to severe exhaustion over the last couple of weeks and I can for sure say that my diet has not been the most prominent or effective for my work outs. In fact I believe it has begun to hurt me tremendously. So after some deep prayerful consideration and some more surrender of allowing the thought of God to sustain me instead of trying to survive on my own consumption and strength, beginning on May 4th I will be partaking in the Whole 30.

Prayers appreciated.

It might not be pretty... In fact I might become rather "Hangry" for the next few days of detox. I might even flip a few tables like Jesus did... Probably not. However it will be challenging to say the least.