Christians Overcoming Weight Slavery

Well, it's a start. I'm here. If you're wondering where this all started - I'm not really sure. A group of friends from Bible study all share the same issue I have - obesity. It's the acceptable sin in the church. It's not okay to be gay or to have abortions, but it is okay to put down an entire pizza and a malt on a daily basis and abuse your body into obesity because that's what everyone does, right?

But God asks us to glorify him with our body. '

1 Corinthians 6:19-20


Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

And we can't do a lot of glorifying of God if we abuse ourselves, now can we?

This group of us, a mere four, have decided to start looking at our food as not only an addiction, but we are clearly not glorifying God through our bodies. There is no food plan, there is no judgment. There is only prayer, honesty, surrender and the hope that we can be rid of this 'god' that stands before us and God.

My struggle is that I often want to lose weight so that I look better. I still catch myself judging myself by the world's standards and not by God's. It's time for a change!

Welcome all one reader - my friend Karen - another C.O.W.S. Expect many changes here. Oh, and I'm keeping this identiy separate from that 'other blog' of mine. There will be a few F bombs here. I'm just sayin'!