Health and Faith. What does real food, doctor’s visits, and exercise have to do with our spiritual life? Many people insist that there is no correlation, saying that our faith is compartmentalized to the church, to the spiritual, and to the supernatural, while our bodies and health are a part of the flesh, the natural, and the physical world. If this is true, then why does God tell us to worship Him with our strength? I assert that, in fact, there is a spiritual battle going on for our health and especially for our strength.
The Spiritual Battle for Your Health
Recently, I have been spending time reading Priscilla Shirer’s book, Fervent. She talks about the most common areas of our life that Satan tries to attack. I honestly haven’t gotten to the chapter about strength yet, but just reading the first few chapters has stirred my thinking. With the health of so many children and adults declining due to poor dietary choices, “bad genes,” and health problems that are plaguing people from birth, how can we not attribute this to the work of the one who steals, kills, and destroys? Satan is more than happy to covertly steal our health, kill our hopes for living without a disability or health issue, and destroy our body. And he’s using us to do it.
In Luke 10:27, Jesus tells us that the two greatest commandments are “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” We focus greatly on worshiping God with our heart, soul, and mind, but we contentedly allow […]
