Lactose Intolerance, Lifestyle Tolerant

"Lactose intolerance is the inability to metabolize lactose, a sugar found in milk and other dairy products, because the required enzyme lactase is absent in the intestinal system or its availability is lowered."
- Wikipedia

Quoting Wikipedia is like taking advice from an undereducated amnesiac friend, who's facts swiftly alter into opinions and hypothesis, much like the science field. Nevertheless, I'm quoting it to get a basic understanding of lactose intolerance. "But wouldn't it be wiser to do so by seeking the ever so trusty medical field of operation?," you say, to which I reply, "Yes, you're right, imaginary voice in my head that I created solely for the purpose of progressing through the opening paragraph."

"Lactose intolerance is an inability to digest and absorb lactose (the sugar in milk) that results in gastrointestinal symptoms when milk or products containing milk are drunk or eaten" describes Jay W. Marks, M.D.

What does lactose intolerancy have anything to do with what I'm about to say? It doesn't. In fact, I just want to imprint it into your mind as an illation which will further be elaborated on in the conclusion of this blog.

What I want to talk about is lifestyles. Particular lifestyles to be in specification. Those that we lead on a daily basis, both healthy and unhealthy. A lifestyle is anything to do with the reflection of one's personal values and attitudes. Things that we can or do value, if calculated, could reach immeasurability. What we value often outlines our attitudes and mannerisms. Just as someone who values their career will more than likely have a more prominent work ethic, or someone who values their intelligence will strive to flex their brain muscles frequently. These are but a few examples of things one would value.

Speaking as someone who represents the Christian principles, what should the lifestyle of Christianity be? Ask this question in a room filled with twenty different people, expect ten different answers. If fellow Christians cannot reach an agreement on how they should be living their life, how could anyone of the Christian faith expect unbelievers to be swayed?

I want you to grab a piece of paper and write down both of these questions:
1.) "What should the lifestyle of Christianity be?"
2.) "If Christians cannot agree on a certain lifestyle, how can we expect the lost to be convinced in Christianity?"

Now, try answering them. You may write more than one answer as it pertains to the subject. At long last, you'll eventually reach a decisive answer. If you have a sincere understanding of Christianity, the answer you reach should respectfully align with the life of Jesus Christ.

While seeking to be a better individual, to rid your tongue of malevolency and venom, helping your fellow neighbor and doing admirable acts isn't frowned upon, those characteristics simply are not what builds the structure of a Christ-like lifestyle. They are but a small contribution, but without a substantial foundation they mean nothing.

Jesus said in Luke 6:49, "But the one who hears My words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete." Essentially, those who have heard the knowledge of truth but refused to apply them to their life have done so in vain. Someone who lives according to the teachings of Jesus Christ should become a demonstration of the exact lifestyle of Christianity.

Things that we value should also coordinate with what Jesus valued and upheld. Our attitudes should best represent Christ. Most Christians know Jesus was compassionate, loving, and forgiving but we often dismiss from the mind that He wasn't tolerable of wickedness and nefariousness.

This is where I want to present the contrasting lifestyle of an unbeliever. Someone who refuses to believe in a deity or a certain theological system. I won't say that the vast majority of unbelievers have no sense of morality. Our conscience, a moral sense, exists to decipher what is right and what is wrong. I will, however, state that with the neglection of morality comes the neglecting of an active conscience. When you intertwine morality and immorality, you lose the sense of what is right and what is wrong. You will begin calling that which is wrong, right. For what is wrong, you'll begin calling it right. This has great impingement on one's lifestyle.

So why is it that a good percentile of Christians today are developing that type of lifestyle? Are we becoming too tolerable to sin and wickedness, to where we begin confusing the two different elements of right and wrong? I used to think the answer was a faint 'yes.' But now I have realized that it is a crucial 'yes!'

If you have someone who is lactose intolerant, you're not going to offer them dairy products. For they know that the consequences of consuming milk or dairy will result in negative aftermath. It's indigestible. In comparison, why is it that Christians, who are commanded to stray from all forms of immorality, constantly digest something they know will bring about suffering within them? More importantly, the disobedience of the knowledge that has saved them becomes foolishness.

You cannot claim, "I am a follower of Christ," yet continually incorporate a lifestyle that suggests things Christ taught against, least you be a hypocrite. Tolerance to sin a roundabout way to the road that leads to destruction and chaos. Knowing this, why is it so easy for us to just turn and look the other way? As if that's saying, "Even though sin is there, I can look the other way to ignore it."

In conclusion, I leave you with this. If it were possible to "turn and look the other way" every time, never expecting the devil in all of his power to manipulate your mind, then how come you find yourself bent on bended knee for tolerating that sin, or that image, for so long?

It is possible, but not in your own strength. When we begin to seek the glory of God, we begin to accomplish things never dreamed of on our own. Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."

Stop tolerating wickedness like the unbeliever. Go and sin no more.