ARE YOU STRUGGLING WITH WEIGHT LOSS OR STAYING HEALTHY?
God designed man to survive on food and food supplements. Scientist tells us we will be healthier than we are today as a society if we ate right, exercised and took the right food supplements. They have a lot of evidence supporting this and I agree with them but they are only partially right because their formula works only for our physical body and man is a tripartite being. So how about the soul and the spirit? What use is it to be physically healthy and emotionally bankrupt? Jesus puts it this way – what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and loose his soul? (Mark 8:36). (The soul of man comprises of his mind, will and emotions). Some people think loosing your soul only applies to dying and going to hell that is not the case because you can loose your mind while on earth.
God’s plan for man is to live an abundant life and this consists of having health in our spirit soul and body. How can this be? It begins by accepting Jesus as our Savior and Lord but it by no means ends there. We have to eat and exercise right. The main food given by God to sustain man, is not ‘bread’ like we know rather it is His word (Jn 6:48-55, 63). In the same way, the main exercise recommended for our sustenance is not the exercise of our body but that of our faith.
Let’s do the math – we are created as tripartite beings meaning we are a spirit possessing a soul and living in a body. Physical food and exercise, caters to a third of our being which is our flesh but spiritual exercise caters to two thirds of our being! This goes to say that about 66% of the food and exercise we need to stay healthy in a world plagued with all kinds of sickness and disease has nothing to do with the grocery shop or the gym! This will be good news to some people because they immediately think, I don’t have to exercise or eat right. That is not the case at all, because if you take care of your spirit and soul, you are less likely to throw caution to the winds when it comes to taking care of your body. The reason being that your soul and spirit know they need your body to stay on this side of life so they will motivate your body to do what it has to do to stay healthy.
Some people seek external motivation to loose weight. The best motivator resides inside of us – our soul and spirit. If you’re struggling with weight loss or staying physically healthy, don’t put the cart before the horse, get spiritually healthy first and you will gain the motivation you need to tackle the physical part of you. If you have clutter on the inside, you are most likely to struggle with clutter on the outside and in your physical space. Staying healthy starts from the inside and God works inside out. Give God’s word its rightful place in your life; it will clean you inside out. Read, listen and meditate on the word and do all three daily. Increase your dosage of all three practices as you go, don’t stay at the same level for too long, least you become stagnant, stagnation produces stink and it’s poisonous. If you’re not progressing, you’re regressing; stagnation is the first step to regression.
Consider everything you buy from the grocery store and your physical exercise routine as food supplements. Supplements are great, but no one can survive on them alone. You need real food. You need to return to taking communion and to the daily reading of the word of God and I mean DAILY READING not once a week. If we become hearers and doers of the word, we can be guaranteed to live the abundant life that God has made available and obtainable. Consider the scriptures below:
My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh (Prov 4:20-22 NKJV)
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life (John 6:63 NIV)
If you heed to the instruction above, you will gain victory over your struggle.
Shalom!
Angela
God’s plan for man is to live an abundant life and this consists of having health in our spirit soul and body. How can this be? It begins by accepting Jesus as our Savior and Lord but it by no means ends there. We have to eat and exercise right. The main food given by God to sustain man, is not ‘bread’ like we know rather it is His word (Jn 6:48-55, 63). In the same way, the main exercise recommended for our sustenance is not the exercise of our body but that of our faith.
Let’s do the math – we are created as tripartite beings meaning we are a spirit possessing a soul and living in a body. Physical food and exercise, caters to a third of our being which is our flesh but spiritual exercise caters to two thirds of our being! This goes to say that about 66% of the food and exercise we need to stay healthy in a world plagued with all kinds of sickness and disease has nothing to do with the grocery shop or the gym! This will be good news to some people because they immediately think, I don’t have to exercise or eat right. That is not the case at all, because if you take care of your spirit and soul, you are less likely to throw caution to the winds when it comes to taking care of your body. The reason being that your soul and spirit know they need your body to stay on this side of life so they will motivate your body to do what it has to do to stay healthy.
Some people seek external motivation to loose weight. The best motivator resides inside of us – our soul and spirit. If you’re struggling with weight loss or staying physically healthy, don’t put the cart before the horse, get spiritually healthy first and you will gain the motivation you need to tackle the physical part of you. If you have clutter on the inside, you are most likely to struggle with clutter on the outside and in your physical space. Staying healthy starts from the inside and God works inside out. Give God’s word its rightful place in your life; it will clean you inside out. Read, listen and meditate on the word and do all three daily. Increase your dosage of all three practices as you go, don’t stay at the same level for too long, least you become stagnant, stagnation produces stink and it’s poisonous. If you’re not progressing, you’re regressing; stagnation is the first step to regression.
Consider everything you buy from the grocery store and your physical exercise routine as food supplements. Supplements are great, but no one can survive on them alone. You need real food. You need to return to taking communion and to the daily reading of the word of God and I mean DAILY READING not once a week. If we become hearers and doers of the word, we can be guaranteed to live the abundant life that God has made available and obtainable. Consider the scriptures below:
My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh (Prov 4:20-22 NKJV)
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life (John 6:63 NIV)
If you heed to the instruction above, you will gain victory over your struggle.
Shalom!
Angela
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