Day 25

Today I went golfing. For the third time ever. I didn't keep score. If I had, it would not have been pretty. I had a great time, though, and can hit the ball pretty hard, or I can hit it much softer and it will go somewhat in the direction I choose. So, that way my workout for the day, and although I didn't sweat (it was kind of chilly outside) it counts because I got to use some different muscles than I'm used to, and walked some.

Philippians 3:17-19 hit me today, especially the part that said, "their God is their stomach". Read it to get the context, but it hit me because my thoughts are often so engrossed in what my next meal will consist of, or where I'm going to get a cookie, that I'm not thinking of how I can serve others, or provide for the most basic needs of those around me. How selfish I am! I need to be thinking of the needs of others rather than how I can satisfy my own desires (I can't call them needs, as there is really very little that I am truly in need of). How do I get to that point? Lord, change me on the inside. Change how I think, how I operate at the most basic levels. Please create in me a heart that is not seeking how to please myself, but how to please others first.

One of the points of this 100 day commitment was to make a sacrifice, but as I have sacrificed some foods, I have only replaced them with an ever stronger urge for others that I am allowed. God, change my heart! Help me yearn for others, not for myself.