Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper, from the hit TV show The Biggest Loser, are digging deeper than the church.
As I watch The Biggest Loser week after week, I am
consistently challenged, not to lose weight, but to become more like the Church
body that I was intended to be.
There are so many lessons that the “church body� could take
notes on from the way that Jillian and Bob dive deep into the participants’
lives that they are training. The
biggest thing that makes these trainers so good at their job, is the fact that
they don’t see a surface problem of weight, they look deeper at the roots of
the manifestation of being overweight.
A physical problem or addiction is a manifestation
of a deeper issue! We, as followers of Christ, need to WAKE UP and stop dealing
with things on the surface. Take weight gain, any one can lose some pounds, but
if they aren’t losing the emotional and mental weight its just a matter of time until the numbers
on the scale add right back up.
Jillian and Bob are great at two aspects of pouring into
people that, as a part of the “church body,� I need to get better at. Even though they use different terms,
they know all about soul ties that so many people are unaware of. A soul tie is
when you are connected to someone emotionally. It is like having a rope coming
from you to the other person, and no matter how hard you try to go forward, you
are connected to them and can only go so far. Bob and Jillian get that! They find the roots to problems.
They can see how there are emotional ties between family members or friends
that have hurt certain participants, and because they are still connected to
that person emotionally, they aren’t healing emotionally!
Another part, that really just gets me fired up as I watch
this show is how prophetic Jillian and Bob are. This may sound funny, because
they don’t seem to know God, but as his Son and Daughter they have tapped into
a part of their father that is in their DNA. They find the golden nuggets in
people, even when the nuggets are covered. That is what being prophetic is– calling the greatness out
of people, when they can’t see or find it within themselves. So many contestants on this show have a
mindset of looking down on themselves, being insecure, and so on. Jillian and
Bob find their strengths. They find that strong, beautiful person deep inside
who desperately wants to come out!
I find it incredibly amazing that you can find the Love of
God pouring out of his children that do not yet acknowledge him as their
Father. How much more should we, as Sons and Daughters that know who they are
in Christ, be speaking into those around us? What if we dug deeper, through the
surface of people in our lives? What if we took the time to call greatness out,
and see people as the individuals they were created to be? What if we weren’t
satisfied with all the emotionally overweight people that we interact with
every day?
Who in your life needs a Biggest Loser makeover?
**Pictures taken from Google Images
