Wednesday, October 28, 2009

rules, regulations, respect: biblical living challenge...

By and large I think I’m a healthy. I workout at least four times a week, only drink water, try to eat healthy meals throughout the day, and take vitamins (when I remember). But it’s not until I’m forced to chart my exact caloric intake, measure ounces of meat, and take bodily measurements that I’m forced to physically see how unhealthy of a person I am.

Occasionally I’ll Tweet about my food-fest of gluttonous proportions, take a picture of a heavenly dish of food, or confess a caloric trespass, but I’m usually quiet on my blog about my eating habits. Why? Because I want to give the allusion that I’m healthy in every aspect of my life. That’s the funny thing about a blog—you can create the allusion of who you desire to be. It’s like the nerd version of mySpace.

In attempts to change this, I will be daily writing post by the following rules:

  1. Live biblically for two weeks according to New Testament standards.
  2. Adhere to the moral laws of the Old Testament.*
  3. Promise to the loyal blog readers that I will not quit for two weeks.

I'll be posting later today about something that happened yesterday at the conference which caused me to already break John 15:12 (Love one another as I have loved you), but I need some time to lick my wound.

*I have studied and love Old Testament teaching, but there is a distinction between moral laws and ritual laws. The moral laws are the ones found in the Ten Commandments: no killing, no coveting, and so forth. I’ll follow those. Ritual laws are the ones about avoiding bacon, not getting tattoos, and not shaving the corners of your head (like Orthodox Jews). In my survey of scripture, Jesus made those rules obsolete through His death on the cross.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are 3 kinds of laws - Moral (the Ten Commandments,) Civil (daily living,) and Ceremonial (Israel's worship) The not eating of unclean meat is a health law - one that Jesus followed. The health laws are not salvation issues, but just simple advice from our creator who knows best. Jesus came to fulfill the Ceremonial laws and the Civil laws were relevant at the time to society.
Good for you for trying to follow this! Blessings in your journey!

christy said...

thanks so much for being brave and sharing....

glo said...

You go girl!
With Christ all things are possible;)
Praying for you, I'm interested to 1st know why and what are you expecting to get out of this and in the end what the Lord reveals to you thru this.
I guess I should read the book to begin to understand your reason of taking this step of faith.
Nevertheless prayng for you!


Glo

Becky said...

I'm looking forward to reading about your two week journey!

Laurel said...

I am so glad that I found your blog this week, and really look forward to getting to "know" you better. I just sent an email to my 3 adult daughters, giving them a link to your blog. They'll be excited to meet a fellow homeschooler (who doesn't LOOK like one). :)

Blessings to you on your 2 week journey. I'll look forward to following along ...

Oh, by the way, in order to not be creating the allusion of being the "perfect family", I shared openly about a crisis our family has been walking through the past 4 months. Let me tell you ... I've been BLASTED by the Christian community (locally and in blogging world). They don't want to hear about the ugly stuff that can take place behind the closed doors of the "perfect family's" home. They would rather that we pretend that international adoption is easy and fun.

mama of 13

Beth said...

I admire how you are so disaplined with yourself. I struggle so much to change bad habits! I guess I need to pray and focus more!

Anonymous said...

YO!! what happened to the update? LOL

Bianca said...

Eeeek! Sorry for saying I was going to post yesterday but I walked through the hotel doors and nearly died from exhaustion.
1. This challenge is harder than I thought.
2. This conference is harder than I thouht it was going to be.
3. These comments bless my stinkin' heart.

Mama of 13, I went to your blog and realized your heart from adoption. I got the chills! I wanted to comment but you don't have the comment inacted :(
Beth, welcome to the blog! Love the comment love :)

Anonymous said...

You can do this!! You are been saturated in prayer!!
side note...just finished "The Forgotten God"...can't wait to talk with you about...

-j

Diandra Ann said...

sheesh... i go to Kentucky and you do THIS??? We need to catch up! Stat!

Anonymous said...

I want to live healthy, and want to drop 15 pounds..hahha ain't gonna happened.

Anonymous said...

Well I to but I about the brief should have more info then it has.

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