The Overcharged Heart

Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life… —Luke 21:34

Beware of overcharging your heart!  Your lifestyle and eating habits may be putting too much stress on your heart.  Abusing your body by overeating (“surfeiting”) will not only wear out your body, but also drain your moral strength.  If I want a clear spirit I must not overburden flesh.

Therefore, I must “take heed” and put a bridle on my appetite and bring it into subjection to Christ’s lordship. Excessive eating and the “cares of this life”  have a numbing effect on my spiritual senses (Mk. 4:19).

I must not live to eat, but only eat to live (Prov. 23:2). Proverbs 25:16 says, only “eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith.”  A person’s belly can become their god (Phil. 3:19). Remember, “the kingdom of God is not meat and drink” (Rom. 14:17).

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink… do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor. 10:31).