A Journey to Health

It has been nearly a year since I posted here. Hopefully, prayerfully, I will not let near that amount of time pass again. I have not gotten on and stayed on track with pursuing health. I have all the information. I know what to do, but it's in the doing and doing consistently in which I constantly fail.

Maybe you've been there. Or maybe you're there now. You're discouraged. Wondering if you'll ever make it stick. Maybe you've given up on making it stick.

As of today, I'm publicly declaring my commitment to live a healthy lifestyle. I'd love you to join me on the journey, to walk with me, learn with me, and I'll even boldly ask that you hold me accountable and maybe even encourage me once in a while, as we all need it.

It seems as if I've made so many declarations that there is no hope for this one sticking. But this time there's going to be a major difference: I'm going to put God first in my health journey. I will pray over what I eat. I will battle and beat my flesh. I will seek out what His word says about eating.

I'm sure the process won't be linear. I'll have setbacks and off days, but I want my desire to be healthy, to take care of this temple God gifted me with, to be greater than the immediate pleasure of eating something that tastes good (or even great), but has no benefit to me.

Do you not know that you are God's temple 
and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 3:16

I too often forget this. God indwells me. I am now (one of) the temple in which He's chosen to reside.

I'm not the perfect housekeeper, but if there was a physical temple building, I'm sure I'd desire it to be honored and taken care of. Why is it I desire less to take care of my body the temple? Because pleasure and desires of the flesh take over. I feed them too much - literally and figuratively.

I'm grateful for this reminder.

So as I begin this journey, I will keep 1 Corinthians 3:16 at the forefront of my mind. It is, after all, the Word of God, which is powerful and able to transform me.

I am God's temple, and I will seek to take care of it every day, every meal, every moment. It's that important.