Honoring The Lord With Your Health Choices

One of my personal greatest struggles, if I am being honest, is honoring the Lord with my health choices, specifically my food decisions.

 

Recently, I embarked on a no added sugar challenge for an entire month. This was not a challenge from the outside, but a challenge that came from within and prompted by the Lord.

 

I heard the Lord speak to me before on this particular issue of my food choices, and well, let’s just say it has been a process for me to actually understand where He was leading me.

 

 

I consider myself a very active individual and always ready to take on a new sport if it seems interesting enough. However, I was fooling myself with believing that my active lifestyle would more than enough make up for my lack of healthy food choices at times.

 

I believed that I ate pretty healthy already and snacking on a processed snack here and there along with a soda would not impact my health. I was woefully wrong.

 

Maybe it is because I am getting older and wisdom is increasing, hopefully, but my body has started to shout at me. And perhaps it has been shouting at me for a great length of time, but I was too busy to sit still and listen.

 

How is your body shouting at you, you ask? 

 

My body was experiencing inflammation and I could feel it in my back, my knees, and my joints. My body was not resting well at night and my mood was hard to manage. Anxiety was intense and let us not forget the foggy brain that loves to accompany an unhealthy diet. 

 

I knew if I continued to ignore these early warning signs my body was giving me, then my health would only grow worse and worse over the coming years. 

 

A lot of diseases that Americans are diagnosed with are tied to food related choices and highly preventable with a healthier diet. If I allowed myself to fall into this category, then I would have no one to blame but myself. 

 

Taking responsibility in choosing healthier food options is a self-discipline. It is also a way to honor the Lord as we make these better choices. 

 

God was convicting me of my unhealthy food options and I knew I needed to respond to Him. God does this to protect us from disease and from having a weakened immune system. 

 

I asked the Lord to help me move in a new direction and to help me rewire my thinking about food altogether. And He has not failed to be faithful in this area of my life for me!

 

Since this diet change I have not had any issues with inflammation at all. My joints do not hurt, my brain is clear and sharp, and my sleep is wonderful. My skin looks brighter and my waist is slimming down and I enjoy these benefits a lot!

 

Watch my video below, part 1 of 2, on further thoughts I share with going no sugar. Hopefully this will help and encourage you to be inspired to make better food choices as well. Enjoy!