STEP 1:

Imagine you received a diagnosis from a doctor that you have a condition that will kill you in a week. This fast acting disease will destroy your body from the inside out and you last week of life will be incredibly painful and miserable. However, there is some hope (Humor me for a minute, please). This disease can be stopped dead in its track by following two simple steps. First, you must stop eating all processed sugar for the rest of your life. No pop, no candy, no desserts. You have to give all that up. Would you do it?

STEP 2:

What would it take for you to give up the processed sugar to stop the dreaded disease? You would have to change the way you think about sugar. Perhaps the diagnosis would be enough to convince you that sugar is basically poison to you.

STEP 3:

Let’s go back to our diagnosis, if you remember I said there were two things you needed to do, but I only told you one: get rid of sugar. Well this disease can be stopped not only by not feeding it sugar, but by fighting it with an enzyme that is only found in raw turnips. Your doctor tells you that you must eat one raw turnip every day for the rest of your life in order to stop the disease. Would you do that? Would you figure out a way to force it down? I think most of us would if our lives were on the line. I know that is hypothetical, but I think it illustrates what Paul is saying here. Your spiritual life is on the line, don’t throw it away.