Weight Loss Scripture Day 2: Build Your House
April 2, 2010 by Kim T
Filed under Weight Loss Scriptures
Day 2: Christian Weight Loss Scripture
Every day in the month of April, I will post an encouraging scripture on my website that I hope will instruct and inspire you on your weight loss journey.
Today’s focus scripture is taken from Proverbs 14:1
The wise woman builds her house,
But the foolish pulls it down with her hands.
Every time I read this scripture, I can’t help but think about the story of the three little pigs. In the story, the big, bad wolf was hungry for a pork sandwich and he knew where the three little pigs lived. He went to the 1st pig’s house, which was made of straw, and begged for the pig to let him in. But the little pig would not, so he huffed and puffed and blew the straw house in. But the 1st pig escaped by running to 2nd pig’s house.
Then the wolf came to the 2nd pig’s house, which was made of sticks. But the 2nd pig wouldn’t let the wolf in either. So the wolf huffed and puffed and blew the stick house in. But the two little pigs escaped and ran to the 3rd pig’s house.
Then the wolf came to the 3rd pig’s house, which was made of bricks. He asked the 3rd pig to let him in but the 3rd pig would not either. So the wolf huffed and puffed and blew with all his might. But the brick house stood. The wolf blew all day but the house never budged. Finally the hungry wolf went away, determined get an easier meal from other pigs in straw and stick houses!
What about you? Is your house (body) made of straw, sticks, or bricks? Your body is only as strong and healthy as the materials you put into it. Your body turns the food you eat into your bones, blood, skin, liver, and other organs in your body. Wouldn’t you have more confidence in a body built on lean protein, vegetables, and fruits than one built on Twinkies, Ho-Hos, and candy bars?
Now I am not saying that you can’t eat such items, but if you want to lose weight and live according to Christian health principles, then I wouldn’t advise a regular diet of them. My goal is to eat healthy 90% of the time or more, saving the other 10% for the other stuff. You get in trouble health-wise when the percentages are reversed!
I think of the unhealthy foods as “tongue ticklers” but I don’t attempt to build my body with them as I once did.
With your hands, you have the ability to feed yourself with foods that turn you into a brick house. Remember that old Commodore’s song?
Today, be a wise person by building your house with the highest quality building materials, which is eating foods as close as possible to the way God made them.
Be blessed in health, healing, and wholeness,
Kimberly Taylor, C.W.C.
Certified Wellness Coach
Author of the ‘Take Back Your Temple’ ebook
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It saddens me that for so long (and to some extent, even now) I have been trying to tear down my house (my body). It is very foolish, so why do it, especially once one realizes how foolish it is? That’s insane, which tells me that it’s the work of the wolf (the enemy), for “God has not given a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.”
As a believer, my house is made of brick, but it’s up to me to not open the door to the wolf.
Hi LouAnn, Great comment – and you are so right about the wolf (or roaring lion as the bible calls him in 1 Peter 5:8). But you know what? Jesus said that he has overcome the world and that means everything in the world, including the enemy! So rejoice that you are taking back your temple brick by brick. God will redeem your past and restore the years that the locust has eaten. I applaud you and look forward to hearing your testimony.
Hi there, thank you Kim for creating this site. It’s an oportunity for women all over the world to express their thougths about an issue – that next to the war in Iraq, does not garner this much attention. Babylon has created, packaged and distributed the transformational aspect of unhealthy eating as a physical exercise. It spends more money on teaching about exercise, taking the physical to the extreme – diet pills, gastric bypass, lipo etc. For us, in Christiadom, it’s ” be transformed by the renewing of your minds.” My body is incapable of doing anything my mind did not tell it to do.
We put so much dang effort in sweat!! When really we’re working that part of our body that is not even isible to us – the mind. That place where the battle rages even while we are in Beddiebye Land. That’s why new mental stategies must be created to replace the old default patterns. E.g. one thing that I started doing was I created what I called my Fat Fund. (Yes really) Whenever I went anywhere and I wanted to buy something that was not on my list of healthy foods, I took the money out of my purse and placed it in the Fat Fund. At the end of the month, I had MONEY!!!! That really let me know how mindless I can be, whether it’s grocery shopping or eating out with friends, or just passing. That helped me a lot. Something as simple as not eating after 7:00 p.m, or deciding that your vehicle is NO EAT ZONE.
These are simple mental strategies, NOT eating food wrapped in plastic (that was hard), NOT eating infront tele. Our lives are filled with default mechanisms.
Heavenly Father, you are the lover of our souls. We know that each one of us is created perfect in your eyes, we know that with you, we are works of art, but because of your Son Jesus Christ we are masterpieces. As we go through this month of April with your handmaiden, Father I ask you to pour yourself into her and satisfy the desires of her heart. Let there be no darkness found in her and may she appear before you blameless. For all the women that log onto this site that does not know your love and mercy I ask you to draw them to you, let the gospel of Jesus Christ come into their hearts and into their lives. Let the principles of the Kingdom of Heaven invade their lives. For all of us that are struggling spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically with our weight, our health, Heavenly Father bless us with more of your grace, turn the ashes into beauty for your name sake. Let the heavens above us proclaim the magesty and the glory of our Lord. We are redeemed from every curse that we have uttered over our bodies, every curse that doctors have uttered, every curse that Bablylon has uttered, we are redeemed through the precious blood of your son. Give us the strength to build precept upon precept, let the word dwell richly in our hearts and take our eyes off of worthless things. We praise you and we give you thanks. Amen.
Hi Kathy-Anne, what an incredible post! I receive your prayer and thank you for it. As Jesus promises in Matthew 18:19, since two of us agree on what we ask, then it will be done by our Father in heaven! Yes, transformation has to start from the inside with us since the inside, the heart, is what God cares about. I LOVE the idea of the Fat Fund. I suggested something similar in the MoneyWise Weight Loss book. In the book, I suggested using any money saved on fast food, junk food, or avoiding overeating as a donation to a hunger relief organization. In the bible, we are exhorted to share our bread with the hungry. It is an idea I am incorporating into the TBYT small group curriculum in the future.
What’s great about your idea is it shows us how much of our health behavior is mindless. So much of our modern lifestyle supports eating fake food and moving as little as possible. It might be easier to live that way but it is disastrous when it comes to our health. Unfortunately, just as with spiritual matters, most people take the wide, destructive path that everyone else takes. Practicing good health habits is the narrow path, but on that path is the ability to live life with maximum energy and fulfillment. Aren’t you glad you found it? I know I am!