The Wellness Revelation 40-Day Journey Sample

Rest in His Strength and Sufficiency

THE BATTLE TO BE TRUE

Perhaps we’ve bought into the world’s lie about weight loss: it must be done in the flesh. Voices everywhere try to convince us that we simply need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and get to work. As believers in Christ, our Rescuer and Redeemer, let’s recognize that weight loss is not just a battle of the flesh but also a spiritual battle.

Just as it would be impossible for you or me to take an orange and separate the fiber from the vitamin C, so we cannot remove pounds from our bodies without first engaging our souls and spirits. The flesh will never be strong enough to fight a war greater than itself.

More than ever, our earth needs healthy and whole people: people who are willing to do God’s will in spirit, soul, and body.

Now is the time to stand against the enemy’s scheme to impoverish our bodies. We can and will prevail, not by our strength, but by God’s. Now is the time to let the Scriptures search, know, and change us. It’s time we burn great amounts of spiritual calories because, in Scripture, fire is always involved when something is sacrificed or sanctified.

Are you ready?

Next week we’ll keep pressing into a healthy and whole life by giving our attention to our minds. Lasting weight loss, whether pounds or deeper matters, requires you to integrate within yourself fully and with God – mind, heart, body, and spirit. Let’s continue the battle to be true in our minds!

Reflect:

Have you ever considered your weight-loss battles spiritual? How does this new understanding help you reframe how you “battle” to lose weight?