1 Million Kilos Challenge

Today I signed up for the 1 Million Kilos Challenge by Channel Ten. So far 1,231,053 kilos have been pledged to be lost by people all around Australia. I think this is a great initiative for Australia seeing as we are quickly climbing the ladder of obesity. The challenge runs for ten weeks and procides an online account to all participants where they have a diary, shwoing their starting weith, current weight and goal weight + other details. Each individual is also given a menu plan and an excercise schedule that relates to their weight and level of fitness.

I have pledged to lose 8 kilos in ten weeks. I think this will be a challenge for me but I am hoping that with the online structure I have for my meals and excercise and the motivation of being part of a nation wide movement, I will acheive what I want.  As well as pledging to lose the 8 kilos I have set up an online donation page through everydayhero.com to rasie $100 for MS Tasmania. I am hoping that people will see what I am doing and sponser me through donating to this appeal.

Homophobia...

* I am not judgeing here, please don't get offended by what I have written, look past my intial words and see that I don't love less because of personal differences... God Bless x

My favourite book of the bible is Romans. On the subject of homosexual acts Romans tells us:

 Rom. 1:26-28, "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, ²⁷and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. ²⁸And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper."

To me this is straight away a hard truth to face. I believe that the Bible is the word of God and so I must obey what is written in it. But it goes against my nature to say directly that one thing is 'wrong.' However I take hope from what follows in Romans Chapter 2...

Rom. 2:1-3  ^"1 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. ² Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. ³ So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?"

And so through this verse while I still struggle with the fact of homosexuality being wrong by my Lord I can rest assured that He would never want me to judge or condenm people who practice what he finds wrong.  Judgement is brought by the Lord not by men. It is my place to love my neighbour and love them for who they are not what they do. I put my trust in God judgeing the world by the state of our hearts and honestly whatever is in someone elses heart is none of my bussiness....that's between them and God.

So while I can disagree with Homosexuality I can also disagree with Homophobia. Hate the Sin not the Sinner.