If You Can Eat Your Way Into Your Illness...

Walking with husband and grandson after church

“If you can eat your way into your illness, then you can eat your way out of it,” my boss said.  Her simple statement had a profound effect on me.  It seemed to reverberate throughout my very being.  

I work at a doctor's office. It was the physician assistant that made this profound statement to me and a coworker as we ate lunch. 

I need to lose weight.  I am what the medical community would consider morbidly obese.  My BMI (Body Mass Index) is greater than 39.  I know what that could possibly mean.  I stand a greater chance of developing diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), heart disease, a stroke, cancer, arthritis and other diseases.

Here I am, believing God to be whole in my body the way that I am whole in my spirit.  I am born again.  I know that I am because I have believed in my heart and confessed with my mouth that God loved me so much that He sent His son, Jesus, to die for my sins.  I am fully persuaded of this fact.  No one can convince me otherwise.  

On the other hand, my body is not whole.  It is sick.  It is morbidly obese.  I need to be made whole.  I have finally made the decision to lose my excess weight so that the diabetes that is knocking on my door will stop knocking and go away; the hypertension that has a foot inside my front door will back up and slip right back out; the arthritis that wants to curl up and go to sleep in my knees will no longer feel wanted and will run screaming in horror from my body.

I have been praying for the root cause of various diseases in my body to leave my body. I have confessed the Word of God concerning healing over my body for years.  I have even successfully lost a few pounds.  However, I have not maintained the weight loss.

When the physician assistant made that statement, I knew it was the voice of wisdom speaking through her to me.  I needed to lose weight if I wanted to be healthy and whole.  Faith for achieving my wholeness entered my heart at that moment.  The more I thought on her words and prayed over them, the more my faith to lose weight grew.

This will not be an overnight event.  It will be a process. It will not be a miracle.  The laws of nature will not speed up on my behalf.  My wholeness goal will be achieved by my doing what I know to do and practicing God’s laws of health.  I must eat the right foods, increase my physical activity (consistently exercise), decrease my caloric intake (eat less), eat at the right time, stop eating at the wrong time, drink plenty of water and get the proper amount of sleep.  Above all else, I must continually pray and seek God for the wisdom and strength to overcome the weaknesses of my flesh and bad old habits that die kicking and screaming.

In other words, I must combine the natural and the supernatural in order to successfully achieve and maintain my health goals. 

God’s will is that I “prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”  (3 John 2).  I am in agreement with the will of God for my life and for my quality of life.  God’s blessings to all.

Scriptures for meditation:  3 John 2