I have been avoiding talks on dieting, losing weight, and what not. I often try to justify by giving my two-cents worth about the fact that stress is the culprit and I am not one who is easily stressed out. I have been living in denial for quite sometime now until last week. I work up with a terrible pain in my heels. Guess what? It’s gout! I went to see the doctor for some painkiller. Besides that he took my blood pressure and found that I had a rather high bp. I have been saying to myself that I have no high bp to be humbled that I indeed do have. I was overweight and I have not been exercising at all.
Well to cut the long story short, the doctor said that I need to have a drastic lifestyle change. For the last 5 days I finally started exercise, cut my food intake to 1/3 of my normal daily intake, drink a lot of water and sleep early – like 11 pm – 12 am instead of the regular 3 am. The physical is just one aspect but the Lord has been really on me lately too. I was struggling. I was challenged in many things. I had to fight through stress in my ministry, in the home (more like responsibility), and in my personal discipline. Please pray for me. It had never been so tough for me. I had taken life quite easily until now.
What is God saying in all of this? I found myself praying more and taking a step back to reflect on my life and ministry. I found that I have come to a place that I don’t want to serve just because I have the time or I make time to serve. I want to take a serious step back – pray more and seek His face. Of course, my colleagues will think otherwise. They think I am one person who does like to pray. How wrong can they be? I just don’t like too much of corporate prayer unless there is a specific purpose. But generally I do pray. For now it has increased even more. I am not just a brain person – most of time being accused of it – but I am sentimental, romantic, and passionate in my relationship with God. Well, some people will not understand that for sure.
Please pray that I will continue in my strict regimen to cut down my weight, bring down my blood pressure and pray even more. I need God’s intervention.
