TESTIMONIES: Even Pumping Iron and Eating Healthy Can Be a Dead-End
(NINE-MINUTE WATCH) — Haley Erickson’s obsession with her physical appearance and eating habits led her down a path that ultimately left her empty, desperately seeking to know the purpose of her life, and even contemplating suicide.
Haley’s experience is an excellent illustration of how we human beings so often settle on something — popularity, career achievement, wealth, etc. — as they key to our existence, the most important thing in our life.
For many congressional aides, the something is career achievement and/or related factors such as being perceived as smart, influential or well-connected. The reality for all of us, though, is that, apart from knowing Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we end up chasing rabbits.
Those rabbits provide temporary satisfaction but when the inevitable crisis comes that our rabbits cannot fix, we think we have nowhere to go. But Jesus tells at John 10:10 that He “came that they may have life and have it more abundantly.”
That moment came for Haley when a leg injury rendered her incapable of the intensive daily workouts at the gym. She explains how she found her way to peace and purpose in the following 8:57 video from the 700 Club: