WHAT ARE YOU EATING: WHAT'S EATING YOU?!

I Had A Little Taste Bud
Which Knew
That Little - With God In It -
Brought The Soul To The Land Of
Contentment!

My Lil' Taste Bud Was Quite Happy
Until The Day He Met Wide Eyes
And From Then
My Lil' Taste Bud Thought Contentment
Was Just Lack Of Enough
Being Self-Satisfying
Through No-Further-Prospect's
Eyes!

I Couldn't Convince Him!
He Would Not Be Pacified 
So
I Gave Him Free Reign
AND THEN
Woe!
Lord Have Mercy!
Lil' Taste Bud
Was Suffering From
Over-Indulgence
AND
Cast Resist Temptation
AND
Get More
Butterflies!

But, Then

One Fateful Day
I Met
Resist The Devil!
Take What You Want!
AND
Pay For It
AND
The Scales Fell From My Eyes
AND
I Knew - Without A Single Doubt -
That Obese Lil' Taste Bud Big
Was Going On "The Diet!"
No Matter How Much He Wailed 
AND
Cried!
He Was Getting A Fig Dried!

Take What You Want!
AND
Pay For It!
Indulged In The Pleasure Principle
AND
They Did Not Give A Flying Fat Farm
If You Ended Up In The Hospital
... Or Dead!

These Awful, Awful Creatures
Practiced Not What They Preached
For
Present Death Was Not Yet Their's To Hold
For
They Worked For That
Undead, Dying, Murdering
Lying, Infelicitous Creep Satan
Who Was
The God Of The Earth
But Was A
The God-Of-All Wannabe!
Only God - Not Appetite - Could Kill Them!

I Listened Well
To Their Contrived Stories
Of Feelings
AND
Tastes
- Vile And Glorious -
Until They  Lauded Chocolate Cockroach
(I Started Changing Skin Color)
BUT
When They Spoke Of
Eating Hu-Man
I Threw Up
AND
Looked Up
AND
Called Out Loudly
For The Holy Son Of Man!

Lord Jesus,
Please Save Me
From Outrageous
Raging Appetite!
Make My Appetite Tight
For
It Is Now Slack
And
Satan And His Minions
Are Riding Herd On
My Poor Breaking Back!
My Stomach Hurts!
Help Me Win This Unequal Fight!

Close Your Eyes!

Say Your Grace!

And

Back Away From The Plate!

Little With Contentment

Is Great Gain

But

Greed Is A Wide Open Gate!

Eat For Strength

And

Not For Drunkenness

And

By Grace

Know When Enough Is Enough

And

Stop Letting Your Eyes

Fill Your Plate

For

Your Bad Habits

Did Your Eyes Habituate!

I Understood
AND
I Did
From That Great Plate
Walk Away
For
It Was Filled To Overflowing
AND
Had Not A Fruit
A Vegetable
Not Even A Sweet Date!

I Thought Of Eve!
I Thought On The Garden Of Eden!
All The Fruit In The Garden Was Good For The Eating
BUT
The Fruit Of The Tree Of Good And Evil Was Not!

I Thought On The Tempter
Vile Creature He
Who Stills Tempts
AND
Torments
Trying Valiantly
To Create Many And More Eve's!

I Thought On The Savior!
I Thought On The Cross!
I Thought Of The Bruise On Christ's Heel
AND
I Rejoiced In The Knowledge That
Jesus Christ Crushed Satan's Covetous Head
AND
I Repented Of The Evil
AND
Praying
Went To
- For A First Time In A Long Time -
A Contented In Christ Soul's Bed!

We Are What We Eat!
We Become Like Where We Choose To Sleep!
We Fill A Half-Pound Stomach
With
Two Gallons Three Four
Full Of Food
Unnourishing
Unsavory
Indigestible
And Still Ask
When's The Next Meal?!
When Are We Going To Eat?!

Lil' Pidgeon's Got Wide Ear Holes!
So
Be The Pidgeon
AND
Hear What Your Real Stomach Says
AND
You Will Not
Over The Porcelain Goddess
Have To Preach A Sermon
AND
Then Have To Beseech The Living God
To Take Your Rebuke Away!

Some Live For Clothes!
Some Live For Food!
Some Live For Sex
Lies
AND
Unsavory Ties
AND
Some Live For Love Of Other
Than He Who For Us Died
On The Cross!
Check Your Self
So That You Don't
- By Self-Indulgence -
Suffer
The Eternal Loss!

Making Peace With God!

I Have No Fond Memory
Of Having Walked In My Own Way
For Even Though Through Repentance
God Forgave Me
The World Did Not Seen To Care!

I Remember Being Fat and Flourishing
Not Realizing That That Put Me At Odds With My God
AND
Not Realizing That The Fat Was Not Just A Weight Thing
BUT
An Indication That I Was Seriously In Bed With The Fraud!

I Walked Presumptuously
In My Own Way!
I Did It All To Suit Me
AND
I Did Not Care
Since I Wasn't Hurting Anybody
AND
I Was Looking For The Big Pay Day!
(Famous Last Words!)

"Hey!!!

Is Anybody Up For A Roman Holiday!"

Little Did I Know -  Or Care -
If I'm Honest
I Was Walking On Egg Shells
Sliding On A Banana Peel
AND
Standing On A Broken Leg
Until The Day
The Fence I Was Straddling
Up and Fell Down
AND
I Was Left
Backside
Upside Down!

I Had No Choice
But To The Bible
Take Recourse!
No One Made Me
For
Sin and I Had Had An Acrimonious Divorce
AND
It Was Then
That I Understood In Truth
That A Surrendered Will And Spirit
God Can Make Of Good Use!

In The Sanctuary Service
The Sinner Must Repentant Come
Bearing A Peace Offering
An Unspotted Lamb
Which He Of Himself
Must Remove The Fat - His Sin
AND
The Lamb's Breast Heart and Right Shoulder
To Make To God
Pleasurable Offerings
Showing With Distinction
Self Will Being Set Aside
AND
That The Law Of God Will Be Kept
As Was The Ark
Carried On The Right Shoulder Side!

I Made A Promise
Which In Myself I Surely Broke
BUT
Because I'd Chosen Jesus
I'd Also Broken Satan's Yoke
Where
Having Done That
I'd Made My Peace With My God
AND
With Jesus As My Peace
AND
My Companion
I - By Christ -
Will Be Called
The Peacemaker
A Child Of God
AND
The Repairer Of The Breach!

 Make Your Peace With God!

Give God The Fat

AND

Keep Him At Your Right Shoulder!