August 21, 2012 - Is God Your Diet Pill?

Good morning to all, I am back to the world of internet. AT&T had taken a hit in our area and we had nothing - phone, internet or cell. Isn't it amazing how dependent we are on those devices for communication? HOWEVER, I am blessed to have those tools at my finger tips in order to communicate. Mixed feelings, but I KNOW I'd rather live WITH them than without. :) I was reading last night from Oswald Chambers' devotional and a passage jumped out at me. Many of us know that God's word teaches that he answers prayer. We know that God hears us and God cares! The real issue is not IF GOD HEARS, the issue comes when he doesn't answer the way we feel he should. For many years I begged God to release me from the prison of obesity in which I found myself. I prayed and I begged while opening my mouth and ingesting 4000+ calories each day. Sometimes I became angry with God. I really thought He was "my diet pill." Can we be honest??? Oswald Chambers stated this, "the point of prayer is not to get answers from God, but to have perfect and complete oneness with Him. If we pray only to get answers, we will become irritated and angry." That was SO me! I felt like God didn't want to help ME and I even said, "well, God must want me to be fat." NO!!! That was irritation and anger speaking because I wanted to be skinny and eat as I wanted. I wanted God to be my magic DIET PILL. Guess what? I would have stayed right there for the remainder of my life if I had not turned that agitation and desperation into something positive. And, maybe God's answer was to allow my frustration to develop to a place where he knew I WOULD FINALLY FIGHT MY WAY OUT! God does answer prayer; God does hear every prayer; and God does CARE! But God never promises that our life will be void of discipline or restriction. He DOES promise to never leave us or forsake us! He does promise to guide us beside still waters - but he NEVER promised to be our diet pill. :) I hope you see what I'm trying to say. Pray without ceasing because you love God and want a relationship with him..........awesome...............no strings attached! Then, get up from prayer, plan a healthy day and stick to it. Amen? Loving you from my home this morning, PK PS - I KNOW you can do it.