When you start a KPED class in college, they give you this long survey style test, that basically scores you on physical, mental, and spiritual/social health. When I went to college the first time, I scored mediocre on the physical, and very well spiritually and mentally. When I returned, I had to take the same class (as I didn’t finish my first semester on the first attempt), and the mental had decreased considerably, as well as the spiritual slipped. But if life is about Balance, I really need to be focusing more on the physical. I can’t undo two decades of sloth and sedentary lifestyle. But I can throw rocks at it. Maybe I can lift weights so I can throw bigger rocks. Or walk a few laps every other day so that I won’t get tired when I throw more than a dozen or so rocks.
I have high blood sugar as a result of my medicine, and high blood sugar means weight gain. Part of this is diet. Part of this is not exercising enough. I don’t want to be diabetic. But how many of our choices, which we esteem lightly, when compiled over time, results in negative changes to body, mind, or spirit?
I’m not picking on anybody or any vice. I want you to consider that unhealthy habit, magnified for 20 years. Not doing that thing that’s good for you for 15. There are health consequences, particularly as you get older, and end of life becomes more painful, costly, while quality of life gradually, or abruptly decreases.
Let’s change something today. Let’s not fail a New Year’s Resolution on February 16th (or earlier). If we fail, let’s try again March 1st, or sooner. If we succeed, we can move on to another improvement. Now, I will say that Jesus is more important, and that relationship more important than any other choice. But as we grow in Christ, we grow in the Spirit, and we grow in wisdom. Let’s use that wisdom to avoid folly and put our shoulders to the harness attached to the plow. Invest more in others, I’m preaching to myself. This is a message for me, too. And more importantly, let’s yield to the Holy Spirit as God, instead of turning a deaf ear, a callous heart. Let’s do those things that make His work more effective in us, and do those things less that make His work less effective in us. Hope that helps.
Trem
P.S. Trem is not mispelled. It’s not supposed to be Term. Trem is short for Tremillian. Thanks.