Are you Yo-Yo ing? by Elaine Davenport (Sunday, June 3, 2007)
03 Jun 2007 Leave a Comment
by peacefulone in Bad diets, Beliefs, faith, Heat attacks, Knowledge gets blurred, Overcomers, People face challenges, Prayers, strokes, Yo-Yo-ing
Everywhere I go, people are facing challenges. Many times they overcome them only to find themselves right back in that same predicament months later. I have heard of people who have gained and lost and regained as much as one hundred pounds a few times. It isn’t healthy “they say” this going up and down.
I don’t quite understand why except for the strain on the heart, legs, feet, blood pressure, nervous system, organs, the increased risk of a heart attack or stroke. I do understand how the increase in weight can set us up for disease and sicknesses of a vast array. I also understand that great weight gains can cause death. Sometimes that knowledge is so crystal clear and sometimes it gets blurred.
But that’s just talk about the diet.
Yo Yo ing can cost you your healing. Here are some ways that we can yo yo; if we’re not careful:
With our faith
With how we treat others
With what we hear
With what we put in front of our eyes (We have to be protective of ourselves)
With our Love
With Forgiveness
With keeping God’s commands
Allowing Strife
Allowing Confusion
With our beliefs
With our prayer life
With our confessing scriptures for healing (or whatever you’re believing God for)
With our helping other people
With our serving God
With our church attendance
With our behavior
With our goals
With our assignments
With keeping our word
With our families
With our spouses
With our children
With our neighbors
With our praise
With our honoring God
With our jobs
With our important commitments
With our spending time with God
With making exceptions
I could go on; you probably can as well, but the point is that people who yo yo are not consistent and especially from a spiritual perspective it’s a dangerous place to be. Don’t be caught without a life raft. Stay close to God and get your healing.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12: 2 (KJV)
12:2 And be not conformed to this world. The spirit of the world is opposed to that of Christ. Satan is the Prince of this world (Joh 12:31 14:30 16:11). Christ died to deliver us from this present wicked world (Ga 1:4). Hence the service of Christ renders necessary a refusal to fashion ourselves after its ways. (PNT)
We live in a world where people like to do what everyone else does. That is keeping up with the status quo. Unfortunately, if we’re not careful, our diets can be that way. The status quo for many regarding food is: “Eat it if it looks good!” That can get you into trouble; perhaps not right away, but eventually bad eating habits pay off big and always at a time that we don’t need the payoff.
The bible says a lot about eating and over indulging, but even believers (we’re just ordinary people too) have struggles with overcoming temptations.
Then Jesus called the crowd to himself along with his disciples. He said to them, “Those who want to follow me must say no to the things they want, pick up their crosses, and follow me. Mark 8: 34 (GWT)
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