Insert or Delete

 There are two ways to lose weight, lower your food intake or increase your activity.

 There are two ways to better the bottom line, increase your income or cut your costs.

  If you get to thinking about it lots of improvement come when we either delete something negative or insert more of the positive.

 Either can work but the best is if you do them both.

 Sometimes in our attempts to remove negative things, it leaves a hole that habits can flow back into. Other times we want to increase good activities only to find them crowded out by bad ones.

 In spiritual matters, it is true as well. If we want more fruits of the Spirit, we need to put to death the deeds of the flesh. If we want to walk in the light, we must avoid the darkness. If we want to curb unwholesome talk, we need to add grace to season our speech.

 Sometimes to “add to” we must “take away” as well.