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healthy foods, longevity, and things to do to live long and strong. It is been an eye-opening
experience.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Leland decided to cut extra sugar out of his life. We began
reading labels on everything we ate. Imagine our total surprise and outrage to discover that
sugar is in almost EVERYTHING we eat including our meal replacement drink!?! Even in that
special cereal (K) that is supposed to help us eat healthy and lose weight, sugar is the #2
ingredient.
Sugar was in everything from horseradish sauce to tasteless cereal purporting to be healthy for
us because they go to great extremes to find special ingredients to make it good for you. You
know, those ingredients like brown rice syrup and cane syrup that tend to sound healthy but
are just another form of sugar. Did you know that most brown sugar for sale in supermarkets is
simply refined sugar with molasses added to it? I didn't.
So here I am after years of studying about healthy lifestyles, what to eat, longevity, exercise,
anti-oxidants, etc. I am chock full of information and well-versed in things I need to change,
apply and do, and still discovering areas that need to be changed. I know all sorts of amazing
facts and have great knowledge about anti-aging, health, and longevity.
I have information overload. Just like many Christians!
What do I mean by that? Well, let me put it like this - information is not the same thing as
action. We can study the Bible and read faith-based books designed to build up our faith to
extreme levels. We can have faith-based magazines coming into our homes by the truckload.
We own videos, cassettes, CD's, DVD 's, and several shelves of faith-based books. Our minds
are stuffed full of information about the goodness of God.
BUT! Just like longevity and health information, until that information becomes revelation and
we DO SOMETHING WITH IT, it is just useless facts sitting in our brain. It does us no good until
we apply it to our lives. Talk is not cheap - talk can destroy our lives. We need to quit talking
and start doing!
So the next time we read a scripture such as John 13:34, "...love one another; as I have loved
you, that ye also love one another;" let's stop and ask ourselves, "How can I apply this to my life
in a way I'm not doing now?" We are commanded to love others so look for ways to love other
people, especially the ones we deem hard to love - you know - that ornery co-worker who
knows it all or that ex-whatever who, the very thought of, still makes you clench your jaw.
Until we apply what we learn, we just have tidbits of information that lead to no life-changing
actions. We will wonder why we are living a defeated life and look to blame everyone but
ourselves. Until we DO we simply know and don't change.
I KNOW if I don't DO that treadmill, my body won't CHANGE. So if I KNOW AND DO, then I will
CHANGE!
The rest of this week, let's check our hearts and see if there isn't any information stuck in there
that needs to come out and be put to work!
Inspiration Copyright © 2008 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
experience.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Leland decided to cut extra sugar out of his life. We began
reading labels on everything we ate. Imagine our total surprise and outrage to discover that
sugar is in almost EVERYTHING we eat including our meal replacement drink!?! Even in that
special cereal (K) that is supposed to help us eat healthy and lose weight, sugar is the #2
ingredient.
Sugar was in everything from horseradish sauce to tasteless cereal purporting to be healthy for
us because they go to great extremes to find special ingredients to make it good for you. You
know, those ingredients like brown rice syrup and cane syrup that tend to sound healthy but
are just another form of sugar. Did you know that most brown sugar for sale in supermarkets is
simply refined sugar with molasses added to it? I didn't.
So here I am after years of studying about healthy lifestyles, what to eat, longevity, exercise,
anti-oxidants, etc. I am chock full of information and well-versed in things I need to change,
apply and do, and still discovering areas that need to be changed. I know all sorts of amazing
facts and have great knowledge about anti-aging, health, and longevity.
I have information overload. Just like many Christians!
What do I mean by that? Well, let me put it like this - information is not the same thing as
action. We can study the Bible and read faith-based books designed to build up our faith to
extreme levels. We can have faith-based magazines coming into our homes by the truckload.
We own videos, cassettes, CD's, DVD 's, and several shelves of faith-based books. Our minds
are stuffed full of information about the goodness of God.
BUT! Just like longevity and health information, until that information becomes revelation and
we DO SOMETHING WITH IT, it is just useless facts sitting in our brain. It does us no good until
we apply it to our lives. Talk is not cheap - talk can destroy our lives. We need to quit talking
and start doing!
So the next time we read a scripture such as John 13:34, "...love one another; as I have loved
you, that ye also love one another;" let's stop and ask ourselves, "How can I apply this to my life
in a way I'm not doing now?" We are commanded to love others so look for ways to love other
people, especially the ones we deem hard to love - you know - that ornery co-worker who
knows it all or that ex-whatever who, the very thought of, still makes you clench your jaw.
Until we apply what we learn, we just have tidbits of information that lead to no life-changing
actions. We will wonder why we are living a defeated life and look to blame everyone but
ourselves. Until we DO we simply know and don't change.
I KNOW if I don't DO that treadmill, my body won't CHANGE. So if I KNOW AND DO, then I will
CHANGE!
The rest of this week, let's check our hearts and see if there isn't any information stuck in there
that needs to come out and be put to work!
Inspiration Copyright © 2008 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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