Let me tell you what God tells us about our health.
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
III John 1:2
A few posts ago I talked about my first experience working out in over a year or so (I know I keep coming back to this). Well, yesterday I started talking to myself about what I thought of my body. Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of fasting and praying for God to deliver the desires of my heart. I’ve really been putting in work. Well, I started to realize something: God has control over everything, and if I can ask Him to give me the desired of my heart, and one of those desires is for me to be at my best, to prosper and be healthy, WHY CAN’T I LOSE WEIGHT?
Whew! Let me get a little bit deeper here. We are not supposed to be sick, and overweight, anxious, depressed. These things come with the human body our spirit was given to be on Earth, God is calling us to do the work to overcome our flesh. I really believe we are given the earthly tools to help overcome them and God is allowing us to use them to spread His love and prove His glory. For example, I’ve dealt with anxiety since I was a child. It was so severe one night (I was seven), I tried jumping out a car moving 75mph+. That was the last panic attack I suffered until last year. I couldn’t understand it. I had just been blessed with a new job God qualified me for (I do not have a degree in tech), my businesses were growing, and I was making progress within myself. God made it clear to me that it was a scheme of the enemy to interrupt His plan (HONEY I COULD SCREAM RIGHT NOW).
The devil’s best tactic is distractions. He just wants us to lose focus for a moment, to get our attention about something other than God and His will for our lives. Just like it sometimes only takes one bad trip of a drug or one second not having your eye on the road to lose your life. It only takes a moment of turning your eye away from God to lose your soul. BUT God grants us grace in these times. He sees, knows, and values our lives more than we think. He also deposits a piece of his power in us to be able to do the things we couldn’t if we just depended on our flesh.
So today, I’m planning how I’m going to get my health together. I have an entire Pinterest board dedicated to fun meal plans and things I’ve never tried making before. So here goes nothing! My goal is to be where I want to be by my 25th birthday (April 7th). I’m killing old habits, creating better ones. If you want to see what I’ll be trying for the next 9 months, follow my Pinterest board “Health is Wealth”. Whatever journey you’re going on to better yourself, stick with it, boo. You got this!
Xoxo, richelle k.
