July 13, 2021

“The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.” —Proverbs 13:4 (ESV)

I love you, My child! I’m sorry you haven’t been feeling well lately. As we discussed before, part of it is your health. Please start exercising. Also, be mindful of the food you put in your body. You are starting to react negatively to certain foods. For both exercise and diet, let’s start off small & reasonable. Let’s do this together, okay? The other part of why you haven’t been feeling well lately is because you’re sometimes slowing down your sanctification by choosing not to focus on Me. In doing so, you’re even more vulnerable to the Enemy’s temptations. More specifically, he has been tempting you to be idle. You have heard, “An idle mind is the devil’s playground.” My child, you are going through a difficult trial right now. You’re sad, lonely, and depressed…a perfect target for idleness. This is one of the Enemy’s schemes to keep you down & out. To make it exclusively about you, thus you miss out on the joy of God’s gifts to you—most notably the people He still has in your life. When you’re so focused on your sadness, it’s hard to feel the joy of those who love & care about you. They feel your sadness too. Too much of your self-pity, and they start to slowly withdraw from being in your presence. Then you’re back to being lonely, and the cycle continues. Idleness breeds laziness and will keep your mind wandering about your sadness and apart from being busy with Me. While you know that excessive busyness is one of the Enemy’s schemes to keep you out of My Presence—now you know that so is idleness. My child, for now, let’s start staying busy together with exercise and diet, okay? But more importantly, stay busy by being in My Presence through prayer and My Word. I love you!

“For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.” —1 Timothy 4:8

“Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.” —Proverbs 19:15 (ESV)

“If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.” —James 4:17