I have struggled with my weight for as long as I can remember. It's a hard thing to be overweight. I have done many fad diets, taken "diet" pills, read books pertaining to weight loss, but every time I have gained most if not all and more of my weight back. Within the last two years, I was successful at loosing nearly 60lbs and I would say that I am healthier and make healthier choices when it comes to eating but after another pregnancy, I have gained back 35 pounds. So here I stand once again looking at my need to loose weight. I have a lot of weight to loose and the thought of loosing my best friend from high school is just overwhelming to me. I look at the big picture and almost immediately say I can't do this it is too hard. So, as with everything, I have had to have the Lord push me into submission.
Recently I was in church and sat under some teaching and one of the points that was taught was about satan. Satan is always prideful in his responses and seeks to be glorified, but Christ Jesus on the other hand is humbled in his response and seeks to glorify his father. For example, Mat 26:39 says "And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." Even when faced with dying, Christ humbled himself to the will of God.
Now, how does that pertain to weight loss? Well after much prayer I am convinced that my weight problem is really a heart problem. How is that possible? Well recently I was reminded of the verses 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's". Now I know that these verses are talking about the sin of fornication, but in application can you not also apply over eating? Is not my body a temple to God in everything I put into it? Thus I also think of the verse Romans 12:1 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." It is my reasonable service to keep my body pure as a living sacrifice unto God. Cain gave a sacrifice to God, but it was Cain's attitude that displeased God. What is my sacrifice? How is my attitude? Is not my God deserving of my best even as it pertains to what I put into my mouth?
So as Philippians 4:6 says "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." I will be praying for the strength to submit unto my God for that is my reasonable service.
