Leadership Tips & Training Created for Good Works

Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

God created our bodies, and He created them for himself.  Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.  It is a holy place. You may ask, “Is God really concerned about my body?”  The good news is that because our bodies are so important, God gives us instructions regarding how to take care of it.  He tells us how we can honor Him with our body.  Since God considers our body important, we should too.

God made us in His image. Wow! Think of it.  It is truly awesome to have the image of the living God within us.  God gave us everything we would ever need to live on this earth.  Man is His crowning achievement.  When man sinned and fell from grace, God gave us the best that heaven had to offer so that we could be redeemed.  He gave us His only Son, Jesus.  He also sent His Holy Spirit, not only to comfort us, but also to indwell us. God has a huge vested interest in us, His creation. Doesn’t it follow, then, that we need to take care of the body He has given us?  Doesn’t it make sense that our bodies should be finely tuned instruments fit for His use? We should honor Him by having a Bod4God lifestyle.

A very important question to ask is this: “Is the way I’m living and feeling now the way I want to live and feel five, ten, twenty years from now?  Is this the way I want to spend the rest of my life?” 

It’s about taking what I call “Small Steps to Life” to change your lifestyle, changes that will put you on a path to better health for the rest of your life.  It’s important to move from eating food that is killing you to eating food that will build your body’s strength. It’s necessary to move from being a couch potato to being physically active and from being unhealthy to becoming physically fit.  Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

Do you really think that without making changes you will suddenly become healthy? Would you be able to put in a full day of physical activity and be alert and engaged with others?

God says that as our days are, so shall our strength be (see Deut.33:25). As long as we are on this planet, God has work for us to do. He has much that needs to be done for His kingdom, and He is looking for those who are willing and equipped to do that work.  

STEVE REYNOLDS

Steve Reynolds is the Senior Pastor of Capital Baptist Church in Annandale, VA.He is also the author of the book Bod4God and the creator of the Losing to Live Weight Loss Competition.  Steve has lost over 100 pounds and has led his church to lose over three tons of weight.