“The Biggest Loser”
Romans 12:1-2
“I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to
present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is
your spiritual service of worship. And
do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and
acceptable and perfect.”
The other night my daughter and I were watching part of the
show called “The Biggest Loser”. The
people on the show were extremely overweight and most of them were discouraged
and had a negative perspective of themselves.
They were placing their hopes in the physical trainers to
get them into shape, so they could experience joy and a healthy life. Even though they knew the training would be
tough; most of them didn’t realize how tough the regime would be to get them to
place of health and wholeness.
The trainers would encourage them, sometimes yell at them,
and do whatever they could to motivate the people to work hard to lose the
weight. The trainers pushed the people to their limits and most of them broke
down sometime or another, whining, crying or stomping off in anger, saying, “I
can’t do it”, or, “it’s just too tough!”
Finally weigh in day came and they all lost some weight,
some surprised themselves and lost several pounds! As the weeks of training continued, I could
see that the overweight people’s perspective of themselves changed. They realized, if they listened to the
trainer, focused on the goal and worked hard, they saw results. Their negative thoughts about themselves changed
and they replaced their bad habits with good habits. As their inner thoughts and attitudes changed,
their habits changed, as well as their outward appearance.
God’s word, says to be transformed, by the renewing of our
minds and His word says that we are being changed from glory to glory.
An outward transformation of our lifestyles must always
start with and inward transformation of our thoughts and heart attitudes; for
our thoughts will guide our hearts and our hearts will direct our actions.
If we really want a change in our lives, we must have
renewed minds with thoughts that are true, pure, lovely and praiseworthy. That can only be accomplished with God’s word
and through us encouraging one another in the truth.
Jesus is our trainer; encouraging us and building up our
spiritual muscles. He knows how to
motivate us and he knows the kind of “workout” we need to make us spiritually healthy
people.
He is has the “truth”, He is the truth and He promises to
set us free!
My prayer is that we will all be “The Biggest Loser”, getting
rid of the heavy weight of negative thinking and sinful habits, through
renewing our minds with the truth in God’s word, as well as encouraging each
other to follow our trainer, Christ Jesus our Lord.
triss
