Healthy My Way
by Steve Ridgell on Jan.18, 2010, under Hope
I like the idea of being healthy. I know if I practice a healthy lifestyle I will feel better and live longer. I know that to be healthy I need to eat right and exercise. I have friends who belong to health clubs and who enroll in weight loss programs to accomplish their healthy goals. That’s fine for them, but I do not need them to be healthy. I do not like them.
Weight loss programs are consumed with rules — always telling you what you can and cannot eat. They are so caught up in numbers that they want you to keep a record of how much you weigh. Gyms are no better. Someone is always yelling at you, telling you what to do. All they do is ask for my money, and they are pretty unrealistic about how often a busy person can attend. So I want to be healthy, but I do not need memberships and programs.
Sure there is some benefit to being with other people with the same goals and focus. I guess the accountability factor could help. Their programs evidently work. I know healthy people belong to health clubs and weight management programs. But not me. I do not need them and I do not want them. But I am really serious about being healthy! I will lose weight my way and I will feel better one of these days.
You have figured out by now that if I really had an attitude like that I would not be real serious about being healthy. Nor would I want to be around people who were. You would conclude that I was fooling myself.
In the same way, how can someone say they want to be a follower of Jesus but not have any connection with a church? Maybe being part of a community of believers is not for you. If you do not enjoy being around people passionate for Jesus, if you do not want to be part of programs that help you grow spiritually, and if you get offended by anyone who expects you to live up to the commitment you made … then church is not for you.
But if you are serious about living a life for Jesus, connect with others who can walk with you on that journey.
Steve
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Praise God for your message. Were it not for Victory Baptist Church in Grantsville, West Virginia, my relationship with Christ Jesus would be far less. For it is there that I am fed, encouraged, complete and member that makes up the body, and I know (tho I am but a humble servant) if I were not there, a vital piece of the body would be missing.
I love cyber-faith. But I consider it only a tool for receiving or giving encouragment. If I were housebound, or for some other reason unable to attend church, then perhaps I would search for an internet church. But I am neither. And so long as I am able, I want to be with brothers and sisters in Christ.
….and you stepped on my toes about the diet thing too
PHEW!!! You had me worried there for a moment…
My walk with Christ for the past 20 years has been such an awesome and humbling experience. I love living my life for Him!! I’ve been teaching aerobics for the past 8 years and He has used me to minister to 100s of people obsessed with weight loss and self-image.
As a Beachbody coach and Certified Group Fitness Instructor, I’ve been so blessed to help 100s of people to not only learn proper nutrition and fitness…but more importantly, to Rebuild the Temple. And see their bodies as “loners” from God; so that they would care for the body in His perspective and not from a worldly view.
Thank you for your blog. And continue to share His Word! God Bless!