Faith vs. Presumption when it comes to our health

Back in 2015, God woke me up to many things regarding lifestyle and diet. I believe He did so to spare me years of chronic health problems that would surely have developed in the years following had they not been addressed.

Little did I know that fast forward 6 years and we would be in the midst of a global pandemic that would have the world gripped by fear, a fear that is almost entirely unwarranted. The overall mortality rate of COVID-19 is 0.27%. That means that 99.73% of the people who get it will survive.

What has been as tragic as the hyped fear over the virus is that almost no one has talked about how healthy people, who exercise regularly and who are not overweight have almost no risk whatsoever of dying from COVID. But has this point been trumpeted? Are people keenly aware of how their diets, how their fitness level, and how their Body Fat % all contribute to their health – especially in regards to contracting and recovering from viruses?

Sadly, most have done very little to change their lifestyles. Truth be told, for many the months of Covid has actually meant that people have gained massive amounts of weight, have not exercised like they did before (sometimes because their gyms closed down), and have due to isolating themselves and the wearing of masks, have actually hurt their immune systems.

So now we have a potentially serious problem with the release of the so-called “vaccines” (I say “so-called” because they are not actually vaccines but better described as experimental gene therapies). And with each passing day, more and more reports are coming in from all over the world about the adverse side effects of people who have taken the vaccine, unexplained deaths in the wake of being injected, and concerns by leading virologists as to the potentially catastrophic dangers that lie ahead for those who have been “vaccinated” due to a phenomenon known as “Immune Escape”. I’ve included a link below wherein Dr. Geert Bossche, a leading virologist (and NOT an ‘anti-vaxxer’), describes “Immune Escape”.

We don’t know the future, but many doctors have serious concerns about future variants of the virus that could be far more lethal than the current one that only has a death rate of less than 1/3rd of one percent!

So why the title of this blog post? Faith vs. Presumption? I believe that many Christians have not heeded the sound advice and counsel since Covid emerged last year to change their diets and get metabolically healthy. They have not addressed their obesity issues by getting their Body Fat percentages into healthy ranges.

But if more serious viruses are coming and if the vaccines are going to be largely ineffective, doesn’t it make sense for Christians to take their health and fitness more seriously than they ever have before in their lives? Wouldn’t wisdom dictate such an approach?

Some will say, “God will protect me”, and sadly that will be presumption and not faith. We don’t NOT wear seat belts in the car saying, “God will protect me”. We are called to be prepared. To be wise. And all conventional wisdom demands that people prepare for what lies ahead.

I was given a blueprint in 2015 – a plan from the Lord to change my diet, to become far more serious about my overall fitness, and then it became part of my “message” to others.

Some have heeded my cry…others have ignored it and said, “This is his latest cause” and have largely dismissed it.

But with a sense of sobriety and urgency that I may have never had regarding the critical importance of addressing these lifestyle issues, I would plead with people to declare war on their unhealthy lifestyles, their lack of basic fitness, and their obesity. These will radically impact your ability to fight off and/or recover from any future more dangerous Covid variants and/or any other viruses.

Don’t in the name of “faith” make presumptions that God will simply protect you regardless of what you do. That isn’t the way God governs the universe and the affairs of humankind. He leaves far more up to us than we can imagine. That means that many do not ‘fulfill their days’ and reach their God-intended lifespans.

We are commanded to walk by faith and not in presumption.

For such a time as this…

Dr. Geert Bossche - https://mcusercontent.com/92561d6dedb66a43fe9a6548f/files/ee29efbe-ffaf-4289-8782-d323642a0072/concern_about_using_current_Covid_19_vaccines_for_mass_vaccination_in_the_midst_of_a_pandemic_Geert_Vanden_Bossche.pdf