I’m Fat

I’m fat.  I have a serious passion/addiction/obsession with food.  I eat when I’m happy.  I eat when I’m sad.  I eat when I’m bored.  I eat because it’s Monday.  I eat because it’s 3:25. You get the picture.

I realized that I was depressed when I had no appetite at all.  I can ALWAYS eat.  (See the above requirements for eating.)  Until the day, I couldn’t.  I had no desire.  I had no fight.  I could tell that my mom and brother were worried about me.  “You’re not going to eat???”  So, I would eat when they were around.  Not much, but enough to make them stop staring at me.  Food had no flavor.  Life had no flavor.

I’m fat.  I sit and eat God’s good Word every Wednesday and Sunday.  I fill up on YouTube sermons and inspirational words.  I listen to gospel music and sing myself happy.  But all that eating and no exercising made me fat.

Eating God’s Word is excellent AND necessary.  But so is walking in His Word.  The Bible tells us to “work out our own salvation WITH fear and trembling.”  And I hadn’t been doing that until recently.  Ya’ll know I don’t like working out, and here it is in black and white in the Bible!

Maybe you’re like I was in my season of depression and have no appetite for God’s Word.  That’s a serious issue and needs to be addressed.  Your spiritual life is in crisis.  If you’re not hungry for the Word, you need to check to see where your relationship with Christ stands.

Maybe you’re fat like me and content to just eat all the time.  That’s a problem too.  WORK OUT YOUR SALVATION.  Let’s stop stuffing in God’s word and not living our lives for Him.

Nobody told us it would be easy.  I’m working on my physical body as well as my spiritual one with fear and trembling.  Every keystroke and squat is me giving myself over to Him. #wepreach