Womanhood Challenge of the Month: March 2010

Choose to live healthfully, and particularly in what you eat and drink. 

Why? Here are a few reasons.

#1: Your body belongs to God. If you intentionally hurt it you are damaging God's property.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

~ 1 Corinthians 6:19 and 20 

#2: It's your "reasonable service".

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
~Romans 12:1 

Notice it says living sacrifice. Not one your personal habits have made sickly and half dead. You may not have perfect health in this world, but give God your best.

#3: Thou shalt not murder. That includes yourself.

#4: Thou shalt not steal. When you abuse your body you rob your family of your service and maybe even yourself. You also rob God.

#5 A lifestyle of self-gratification is degrading to womanhood. Satisfying one's wants is a good thing, within reason. Making the satisfaction of one's desires paramount is disgraceful and beneath the dignity of a true woman of God.

#6 The results of an unhealthful lifestyle interfere with a woman's ability to do what she has been called to do.

The challenge? 

Choose to live a healthful lifestyle. For God. For your family. For yourself. For your future family.

In particular, choose to eat and drink healthfully.

Do something this month to improve your eating and drinking habits.

Do something this month to set the stage for further improvement, or for the maintenance of good health practices, in eating and drinking.

Share what you are doing to meet the challenge. You may share here or leave directions to your blog posts.