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Embrace God’s Purpose, Desire, and Design

HIS DESIRE AND HIS DESIGN

Once we’ve surrendered ourselves to God’s strength and power, we organically develop a thirst to maintain unbroken fellowship with Him. Because outside forces will try to pull us away from His ways, we will always be in need of His sovereign and loving hand to guide our desires.

Until people wanting to lose weight or live healthier lives understand this, they will continue to keep the weight-loss industry in business. Another book, infomercial, or unused treadmill will find its way into their homes and onto their credit cards.

How do we know whether we are desiring what God wants for us? Through His Word, He tells us what He created us to be.

First, God desires us to be holy by way of sanctification. The Hebrew word for “holy” is qadowsh, meaning “set apart.” The Greek word for “holy” is hágios, meaning “set apart from common use and dedicated to God.”

Along with being holy people, God wants us to be whole people.

Is it even possible to be holy and whole in front of God? We all come broken, not whole, into this pursuit of better health. Our minds often don’t reflect our desire to love God with all our hearts, minds, souls, and strength. In fact, this brokenness is what drives health and fitness trends. Humanity is seduced into desiring the perfect body (which, by the way, does not exist) so that we may reflect the image of perfection.

Friend, remember this: You are God’s design. This plan is an opportunity to be put back together again by the One who made you and who knows where all the pieces go.

Let’s get back to who we were created to be.

Reflect:

Read Genesis 1:27. Since you were created in the image of God, what does your image say about Him?