If you don't take care of your body, how can you expect your body to take care of you?
The journey toward improved health is not only a common-sense exercise in personal discipline, it is a spiritual journey ordained by our Creator. God does not intend that we abuse our bodies by giving in to excessive appetites or to slothful behavior. God has instructed us to protect our physical bodies to the greatest extent we can. To do otherwise is to disobey Him.
If you're not determined to be the master of your body...then you might just become a slave to your impulses.
It's not that some people have the willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. The benefits of exercise are both physical and emotional. But no one can exercise for you; it's up to you to exercise, or not.
If you're on a new health regimen, you may relapse back into your old, unhealthy habits. If so, don't waste time or energy beating yourself up. If you've "fallen off the wagon," simply pick yourself back up, dust yourself off, and get back on it. God was with you when you were riding that wagon the first time, He was with you when you fell, and He'll welcome you back on the wagon when you're wise enough to climb back on.
If you want to form a new habit, get to work. If you want to break a bad habit, get on your knees.- Marie T. Freeman.
Discipline matters. It takes discipline to strengthen your faith; it takes discipline to improve your fitness.
"I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me." -Philippians 4:13
In Him,
Dalinda
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