Why You'll Never Lose Weight this year on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

We're here at the beginning of the year where so many people are making New Year's resolutions,

and for so many people, those New Year's resolutions involve a commitment to lose weight this year. And for so many of you who've

made those resolutions, it is not going to happen. And I want to tell you on this podcast why it's not

going to happen. But before I tell you why it's not going to happen, you need to understand that some of you

listening to this should not lose weight this

year. You should put it out of your mind. Some of you have physical issues that make it impossible

for you to lose weight. Some of you have physical issues that make it very unwise for you

to think about losing weight. Some of you have spiritual issues where you're not thinking about food properly

and you need to deal with that before you deal with your actual weight. The reality is that the

Bible speaks about weight and weight loss and weight gain from a completely different perspective

than we do in our contemporary Western society. We actually addressed that topic

on a podcast last year at this time, and I'd encourage you to go listen to that, to think more

carefully and more biblically about how weight loss fits in with an overall vision that the Bible

portrays about food. For so many of you listening to this, self-control in

your eating is a problem. It's an issue. You eat more than you should. Even though God made food

to be received with gratitude, in your life, gratitude has morphed into gluttony,

and you have a problem. And the reality is that when we lose self-control with regard to food

and we become gluttonous, it becomes problematic in many different ways. First of all,

there's the sin problem that we need to

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