Ch-Ch-Changes

Hello!

In my last blog “Middle Ages” I mentioned that it’s time for some changes.

I deeply believe that changes are in order.  Changes in my daily routines, my health and my relationships.

Well, let’s talk about one of those changes today…here’s why…

Yesterday I was talking with a friend about many things.  She was telling me about a woman who recently passed away.  She wasn’t even 60-years-old.  I asked my friend what had happened, and asked if she’d been sick.  “Well”, my friend said, “It was basically another suicide.”  Of course I questioned what she meant by that.  My friend went on to say that this woman had lived an unhealthy life.  She’d not taken very good care of her self over the years.  Even going as far as to lie to her doctor about her health conditions.  So you see, in my friend’s eyes that’s suicide.  Long-term suicide.

This stopped me cold in my tracks!

I said to my friend, “So then, in your opinion, if I eat a Big Mac every day (I do not) and spend my life eating all the wrong things, not exercising and ignoring the fact that I’m slowly ruining my body…that’s suicide?”

Let’s take a minute to think about that.  Clearly, many of my health issues stem from being overweight for a long period of my life.  (We can talk about the “why” of that in another blog.)  I understand that my weight and health issues are of my own doing, my own choices have lead to this.  But when you say that I’m committing suicide by living a prolonged unhealthy lifestyle…well, that’s a slap in the face!

Also, please let me just say, that I don’t feel insulted by my friend.  Not at all.  She’s a very loving and kind-hearted woman.  She’d never insult me and her statement was not taken that way.

So what do you think?  If you live a lifestyle of choices that you KNOW are unhealthy and affecting you in a negative way, is that suicide?  Are you slowly killing yourself with your daily choices?

Scripture tells us:

“Everything is permissible for me”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”—but I will not be mastered by anything. “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food”—but God will destroy them both.
-1 Corinthians 6: 12-13a NIV

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?  For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. -1 Corinthians 6: 19-20 NKJV

This tells me that just because I CAN…doesn’t mean I SHOULD.  It also tells me that we are to take care of our bodies!  Our body [our health] was bought at a price.  Christ paid the price for not only my sins, but also so I could live life to the fullest!  My choices aren’t living life to the fullest.  In fact, my choices have caused me to NOT be able to live life to the fullest!  (John 10:10)

I’m not sure if I’m conveying my thoughts on this subject well.  Maybe we’ll revisit this again in the future.

For today, let’s just say that I, indeed, need to make a lot of changes in my life.  If I don’t then my life is not full. My quality of life is not nearly what it can, and should be.

What are you thoughts on this?  Share with me and we can continue the conversation.

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