For the first 18 years of my life, I was a lean, mean running machine, never weighing more than 140 pounds. In college, I grew out, gaining the freshman 25, then bulked up by working out several days a week. By the time I married, I leveled out at 180 pounds, exercising a few times each week to stay in shape. After being chased by stray dogs for several miles on consecutive days, I decided to retire from jogging. Subsequently, as time passed, one day I woke up fat.
When you stand and look at yourself in a mirror, its only uplifting if you’re in shape. Unfortunately, countless individuals have developed 6 packs, cases or keg shaped bellies. Some where along the way as your metabolism slows down, all it takes is poor eating habits or consuming too many calories by drinking beverages to become bloated. Once you reach this point, you only have 2 real choices, make drastic changes or accept your obesity.
Although millions are annually concerned with their physical weight, people can also become spiritually obese. Usually, this process begins with an innocent break from God. “I’m not going to go to church this weekend? I’m too tired to read my Bible. I just don’t feel like praying today; nor do I know what to say to God anyway.” Often, one day becomes a week, weeks turn into months and before you know, you haven’t talked to God in years. If you find yourself here, remember the words of 1 Timothy 4:8. Put Jesus’ words from Matthew 7:24 into practice or else you might become like me, waking up fat.
by Jay Mankus
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