LIVING LIFE TO ITS FULLEST POTENTIAL!

 Jesus came to give us real life, here's an excerpt from scripture:


"I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of."
The full excerpt can be found here...John 10:1-10 (The Message)


"...More and better life than they ever dreamed of." I am dreaming again! Six months ago if you would have told me I'd be burning over 2,000 calories a week at the gym I'd have said "Jim who?!"


I have more energy to do stuff than I have had in years! Just ask my neighbors who have marvelled at the yard work I've done this season! I'm repainting the house, and I'm buying clothes off the rack!!!!!!!

I'm living ....again!!!


Part of real living involves taking care of your spiritual life.


Jesus said He was the Way, the Truth and the Life.

He's been waiting there all the time for me, waiting patiently in line.....behind one heck of a lot of overeating!!


It dishonors my Creator when I treat this gift of life with scorn. Something in your life which shortens your life, such as morbid obesity, cannot be pleasing to God.


The Apostle Paul wrote and said: "Don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself..." 1Cor.6:19


So if God owns me, and I don't belong to myself, than stuffing my body with more food than I need to survive is damaging me.


God wants the best life for us. He wants to help me discover why I overate to stuff away the pain, (or whatever gobbledygook I deal with.). He wants me to believe that He does have the power to lift me out of this ditch called "death by smorgasbord."


I've tried to substitute food for God in my life. I've tried to fill the "God-shaped" hole in my soul with food.

There may be enough food in the world to make me feel better, but I can't eat it all!!


If I was as consumed with the "God-Bearing life" as I was with overeating, what sort of christian could I be?

Okay. 

I'm working on losing weight and getting my physical strength back at the gym...CHECK!

I'm writing this blog for myself to sort out my thinking and emotions so that I can be healthy in my mind...CHECK!

I am figuring out how God fits in the "God-shaped hole" in my soul, and attempting to remove food from there to make more room for Him...CHECK!

So that’s what I'm trying to practice.

Note!  Practice is not perfection!

I've started down the path,  but I'm not sure I'll ever "arrive" this side of eternity! ~smile~

For more on this concept, please click on my page: "The Three Legged Stool."


Of course I still deal with some heavy thoughts, but I’m attempting to let those instruct me in the ways of light living. 

Which in my view is living life to its fullest potential!