Why is that we spend hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars to alter our bodies? What are we doing it for?
I am overweight by about 50 to 60 pounds and I want to lose weight, but I have recently asked myself why am I trying to look a certain way? My wife loves me as I am, so why does it matter?
Part of me wants to lose the weight for health reasons, but another part of me wants to do it for vain reasons. The latter is what concerns me.
God made me a certain way and I should embrace that. However, I do not believe that God made me to be a glutton with regards to food or lethargic enough to put on weight.
We are to treat our bodies as temples. This does not mean I have to be a super model, but it does mean that I take care and treat my body with the respect it deserves. This does mean in my opinion eating right which includes both the type of food and the amount, getting up and doing some kind of exercise, not drinking excessively if at all, not taking drugs, etc.
For some people these are difficult tasks to complete. For me, it comes down to the type of food. I love sweet stuff and certain types of food to the point where I could probably eat an entire bag of Doritos or an entire box of donuts or an entire container of ice cream. What is driving this type of behavior?
Part of it is lack of will power, whatever that really is, but I believe another part of it is Spiritual. There are forces in this world we cannot see yet we know they are there such as gravity. I think Spiritual forces from demonic influences are the same and can lead us to doing certain things to our bodies.
The problem is are you willing to ask God for help through His Son Jesus Christ, I am. God, I need help to overcome the desire to eat too much and the wrong types of foods. Please help me with this, in Jesus name I ask, Amen!. I encourage you to ask God for help as well for whatever problem you are having.