My Body, God's Temple.

1 Corinthians 6:19 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

     I want to begin today by saying a big THANK YOU to EVERYONE who posted a comment on my "War on Weight!!" status on FB and blog, that means a lot to me. I will readily admit that I don't know everything about weight loss or I suspect I would be a lot smaller. There were several comments posted on FB and my blog concerning my goal of 2 gallons of water per day. I will, based on these posts, scale back my water consumption goal to 1 gallon. One post said that a nutritionist said no more than 72 oz. and one said that as a nurse a gallon would be an o.k. goal. So, I will go with 1 gallon as my goal, for now.

     In my studies about gluttony I came across a message preached at Sterling United Methodist Church in Sterling, Virginia. The message was preached on June 7, 2009, the preacher said, "Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. The sad fact is however is that many of us treat our bodies like a fraternity house. It's amazing what we throw in there. It's much more like a frat house than a temple. Would we treat this building, God's house, like we treat our bodies, the temple of the Spirit?" When I read that it struck me between the eyes! I had to think about how I treat this body, temple of God and I realized that it's not pretty. In fact it's aweful. I began to realize the "hypocrisy" of a very overweight preacher preaching about sin! I have heard good preachers say,"Well, I know I'm overweight, but I want to die happy. Haha" REALLY? Not me! I want to die serving God whether it makes me "happy" or not! My body is the place where God Himself dwells and being overweight, all I'm giving Him is a shorter amount of time to use me according to His will.

    I am what people would call an extremist, in other words I tend to go to the extreme when I see something wrong. For example if I am depending on someone to do something and they don't do it I will say "I'll fix that problem." then I do it myself and will NOT ask that person to help out again, at least for awhile. Or if I make a mistake I say "I'll fix that problem.", then I stay as far away from making that potential mistake again as possible. This can be good at times and not so good at other times. I read what the preacher; mentioned above; said about the temple and conviction came upon me and I said "I'll fix that problem." So here we are! I am ready to "fix" this problem of letting the sin of Gulttony reign over me. I know that God is more powerful than ANY weapon formed against me... even food! If you struggle as I do, let's claim the victory as we continue to march toward a healthier life both physically and spiritually.