November 28, 2011

What a great morning to NOT have to go outside.  I was reading a little devotional for women this morning and the woman writing said when she was young her father would do an exercise with her where he would start a phrase and she would complete it.  One of her favorites was "A wise woman......." and she would say "has a servant's heart."   Now, I know we are not all women in this family, but I do know we could all rehearse statements that encourage and shape us.  For example, what if we were to train ourselves and our children to say, "Eating healthy........"   reply: "Is NOT an option."    OR   "Choose life........."   reply: "and eat to live."

Sometimes silly, little statements are just that to us: silly.   But we overcome by the blood of the LAMB and the WORD of our testimony.  I remember on January 1st of this year, while at my heaviest weight, I started writing sticky notes and asking myself for days, "What does a size 10 feel like?"  I wrote that in 10 different places.  I had no clue what I was to do, how to start, what was the plan????   I was in prison.  However, GOD KNEW.  And the more I confessed, the more action my SOUL began to take.  Three weeks later, Chip and I made the determination to do HCG and the rest is not just history - but VICTORY.

All of us wage war in our minds - that's where the battle is.  However - I couldn't just ask myself about a size 10 - I HAD TO believe, confess, confess again, bring my thoughts under subjection, remind my flesh - "you're not the boss of me," determine that cheating was not an option (BIGGEST BATTLE RIGHT THERE - one little bite can't hurt), fight and claw my way to a place of touching truth and gaining my freedom.  My desire to be out of prison had to strike my undisciplined life with such force that something changed.  What changed - my mind.   My will to fight.  My perspective that my children and grandchildren were being affected by my obesity. My joy - etc. etc. etc............

Can ONE statement really bring freedom?  YES!   "I believe that you are the Christ, the son of the LIVING God" is ONE statement that brings salvation to mankind.  

"Choose life and eat to live........." is ONE statement, but if we understand that eating is a choice - our choice - and that eating correctly gives us life - there is power in that ONE statement.   When you are tempted to cheat, say out loud "I choose life!"

Eating on protocol today because I CHOSE TO.   :)      PK