Gut Check
God created you to glorify him in everything you do, including taking responsibility for your health.
The appointment was set. I received my eight pages of instructions. I picked up the prescription pitcher with the mix to drink before the procedure. My sister agreed to be my driver. I took two days off work. Ready or not, my colonoscopy procedure was going to happen. I call it a gut check. Why do I call it a gut check when it is not a procedure that is looking at your gut? Whatever goes through your gut eventually comes out somewhere else, right?! I’m sticking with gut check.
Now the horror stories began to come trickling in. “You are going to want to vomit from drinking that stuff. Get your TV set up in your bathroom because you won’t be leaving for hours. You are going to feel loopy and groggy the whole day and maybe even the day after.” My mind started to race. Was it really going to be that bad? I sent a text to my “McVane Sisters” thread and asked my three older sisters to pray. They knew what a gut check was like and they told me they would definitely pray for me.
I told my roommate Faith about my gut check and all the horror stories I heard. She is a licensed vocational nurse and is going to school to get her nursing degree. She did plenty of home healthcare and helped her clients with the process. She asked me, “would you like to know how you can make it easier on yourself?” I replied, “Absolutely!” She shared her insight. Two days before your procedure eat clean, light, and high fiber. The day before drink all liquids and fast from solid foods. That way when you start drinking the mix and it starts to work, you won’t be in pain because your gut will be very empty.
I like instructions and I’m a rule follower. I took Faith’s insight and did what she said. I had no pain when the mix I drank started to work. I felt great after my gut check and walked to the car with my sister. We stopped at an Asian restaurant and ate spring rolls and vermicelli. My brother-in-law asked what he could make me for dinner. His famous tater tot casserole was just the comfort food I needed. No horror stories from me and my gut is clean as a whistle.
What if I had listened to those horror stories and cancelled my appointment out of fear? Making sure I am up to date with my health appointments is my responsibility. In 1 Corinthians 10:23-26 it says I have the right to do anything, but not everything is beneficial or constructive. Eat and drink as unto the Lord as it says in 1 Corinthians 10:31-33. Taking care of our bodies is our responsibility. We have free will. Let’s be good stewards of the body God blessed us with. When we do that, we are glorifying God.
1. Have you let any of your health appointments fall behind? If so, what’s the barrier from keeping them up to date?
2. It is a challenge to glorify our bodies with what we eat and drink on a consistent basis. What is one good habit you could start that would help with this challenge?
3. Share a prayer request about your health or someone else’s health at www.createdwoman.net/prayer. We’d love to pray for you.
“I have the right to do anything,” you say – but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything” – but not everything is constructive. No one should seek their own good, but the good of others. Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
(1 Corinthians 10:23-26 NIV)
“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God – even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.”
(1 Corinthians 10:31-33 NIV)
Stacy McVane
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