You are what you eat.\u00a0 I think it’s crazy how many different kinds of diet plans there are.\u00a0 People will do some crazy things and spend some crazy money to lose weight and get in shape, when all they really have to do is eat less and be active more.\u00a0 Every ounce of fat on your body, got there through your mouth.\u00a0 But so many of us don’t want our stomachs and tongues to go without.\u00a0 We keep hoping the diet pills and foods that replace fat with corn syrup will somehow magically turn us into the people we see in the magazines who starve themselves and take steroids.\u00a0\u00a0 And we do that in spite of the glaring common sense that simply cutting back on portions and going for a walk instead of watching TV will make more real impact than all the fads put together.<\/p>\n
There’s another common sense thing lots of people ignore and that’s the requirement of God that we live holy lives by his power.\u00a0 We are called by God to turn away from selfish desires and not be controlled by a hunger for immorality.\u00a0 We are to be controlled by God’s Spirit and live the way he commands.\u00a0 Jesus Christ gave his life on the cross as an atonement for our old, rotten, sinful choices.\u00a0 But his grace is not just a technicality.\u00a0 His gruesome death ought to be a terrible reminder of how painful and destructive your sin was so that you stop doing it and walk away from your old life and live as a new creation.\u00a0 Christians aren’t called saints in the Bible just for fun.\u00a0 We get that title for living righteous lives by the power of God’s Spirit.<\/p>\n
So…whichever way you are living reveals what you truly believe.\u00a0 You can make any claim you want about what you believe or don’t believe, but your real life choices you make (including the choices you make behind closed doors and in your own mind) expose the truth of what you have faith in.\u00a0 If your faith is in the world, you will live life the way the world tells you to.\u00a0 But if your faith is in God, you will actually do what he tells you and live life his way.\u00a0 And if you say one thing and do another, you’re simply a hypocrite.<\/p>\n
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