Prayer works. Our Heavenly Father wants to help you; you
just have to ask Him for help. I am not
going to lie, it is hard and it stinks.
I have to constantly check myself and my heart every single
day. The days when I try to resist
temptation by myself, I fail miserably.
On the days when I seek God to help me resist temptation, I am
pleasantly surprised that He is there!
It gets me every time too when I use the strength of Christ and I have a
really great day with moderation and I have kept my diet in balance… it is the
sweetest blessing! I feel great about
beating temptation with determination that I found in Christ.
By the
time I decided to have gastric bypass, I felt like it really wasn’t an option-
it was something I had to do if I didn’t want to die. I was a busy mother of two babies that were
under the age of two. I was weighted down. I never did anything for myself. My existence was for my children. I loved my children so much that I was
willing to go through this life threatening surgery so that I could be around
for them longer. That was a totally
awful mindset to have. That mindset
makes me understand the love God has for me and all of his children, but it was
the wrong mindset.
All of us, especially
women, are so caught up with our lives and all the other people in it that we
forget to do anything for ourselves… like being healthy. Your excuse may be that you do not think you
are worth it, you do not think you are good enough, or putting everyone else
before yourself. Well, you need to stop
it. You do it for yourself. Why? Because you want to glorify God with the
beautiful temple he has blessed you with.
Your love for the Lord will radiate from you and pour onto others.
Everyday we pile things on ourselves that keep us weighted
down. Some of us are working women who carry the stress of our
everyday work problems, dishes, laundry, keeping the house clean, our husband
and his needs, our children and their needs, keeping up with friends and
neighbors, bible study, car pool, PTA, some of us may be getting a degree,
feeding everybody and making sure they don’t famish- at my house that is a full
time job in itself! Lastly, if you think like I do… we add your issues and whatever they
are. Mine might be my temptation with
food and wanting to over exercise. You
are so weighted down.
God loves you so much that he sent his only son to die for
you so that you can have eternal life.
God loves you. He thinks you are
worth it and he wants you to be healthy so that you can live for him and be his
legacy. You are good enough and He wants
to see you succeed at being healthy. When
I was finally able to realize what I meant to God and how deep his affection
was for me, it changed the way I looked at myself in the mirror. When God looked at me as his child, he didn’t
see the overweight and ugly person that I was disgusted to look at in the
mirror. He saw his gorgeous, stunning,
beautiful, and sweet daughter that He was absolutely crazy about. When I finally wrapped my mind around God’s
true feelings about me, I was able to realize that I am worth putting the
effort into. It didn’t happen overnight,
but eventually I was able to look into the mirror and see what God sees when he
looks at me.
So while we are dealing with our worldly issues, let’s ask
for Christ to strengthen us as we deal with the stress of work, home, friends,
family, kids, husbands…. And I promise
you, you will be pleasantly surprised at how successful you will be when you
give your weights of the world to Him and find your strength in Christ. Beat temptation with determination.
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