Have you been struggling to control your weight? The more you try to lose, the more you gain?
I have struggled with trying to lose weight most of my life. The problem was self-“control, once I started to eat, I would have a hard time stopping. I tried diets, fasts, and they always failed. The more I tried, the worse I felt about myself.
Food was controlling my life….
“”I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.” 1 cor 6:12
The Lord showed me several areas that I needed to change.
First, the body (notice I did not say “my body”) is the temple of God and what I put in it should be beneficial to nourish His temple to bring Him glory. If I was not feeding the body properly, it would get sick and I would not be able to serve Him as He desired.
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;”
1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV
Second, God showed me I was not bringing what I was shoving in my mouth before the Lord (specifically random snacking).
“For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.” 1 Timothy 4:4-5 NIV
By stopping and praying before I shoved food in my mouth, God would show me whether I would need to eat the food or if it was something that would nourish the body.
Third, all eating problems are about Lordship. Who has control.
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Fruitful Growth in Faith. “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.” 1 Peter 1:5-7