The Biggest Loser

Last night (Tuesday) was the premiere of the latest edition of The Biggest Loser on NBC.

This is one of the few reality shows that I watch semi regularly.

The contestants are often grossly over weight (obese) and at the end of their ropes. They think that they have no hope. Many have tried multiple other methods of losing weight without success. Their only hope is to surrender control of their life over to someone else so that they can gain control of their life for the long term.

I have recently been struck by how similar this is to the Christian life. We have to turn control of our life over to God in order to gain control over our eternal life. We have to totally surrender.

The contestants on The Biggest Loser have to surrender to the trainers, producers, doctors and dietitians on the show. Some succeed at this better than others. But some only temporarily surrender and after the "game" is over go back to the way things were before and gain back some if not all of what they had lost before.

If we totally surrender to God we can never go back to the way things were before, it is an irrevocable change that is started. If we turn our back on God and take back control we tend to become more wretched than we were before until we surrender again. It becomes a daily and even a minute by minute surrender.