This week-end, my assigned ladies day topic was “Craving the Protein: Learning to Love the Meat of the Word.” I loved it so much. A lady came to me at the end and said that her goal, as she went home, was to get in the Word in measures and ways that she’s never practiced before now. That’s a big win, in my book, because HIS book has the answers to all of life’s challenges. Therapists, physicians, exercise, diet, counselors, friends and family are all good resources, but the basis of your answers—the starting place— is the Word. I hope every lady who said she’s resolved to study more deeply really keeps her word. If she does, her life will be better.
Proteins arrange themselves in chains of amino acids and those chains just keep on building themselves. Proteins quite literally build people. So eat your turkey breast, guava, black beans, cottage cheese, eggs, and fish (and so many more foods that are rich in protein) because these are the foods that strengthen and energize.
But ultimately important is the spiritual meat of the Word of God. It’s what gives you strength for the hard days and energy for the tasks that have eternal consequences. Be a spiritual body-builder! 
Hebrews 4:12ff is your body-building passage for today:
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.