God, I recognize I am made for more than the vicious cycle of being ruled by food. I need to eat to live, not live to eat. So, I keep asking for Your wisdom to know what to eat and Your indwelling power to walk away from things that are not beneficial for me.
What we need is boundaries, not barriers.
This is what it looks like to rise above the circumstances and determine to hold on to the greater good in the grand scheme of things: honoring God.
Boundaries are simply clearly stated parameters that provide a safe structure for communication and the health of a relationship.
Finally, I went to my husband. “Honey,” I said, feeling the entanglements of expectations loosening their grip on me, “I can’t do everything good wives seem to do. But I can do three things. So, tell me your top three things, and I will do those well.” After all, I could spend a whole marriage doing a hundred things halfway with a bitter attitude and an overwhelmed spirit. Or, I could do three things wholeheartedly with a smile on my face and love in my heart.
He waits every day with every answer we need, every comfort we crave, every affection we’re desperate for, while we look everywhere else but at Him.
Giving with strings of secret expectations attached is the greatest invitation to heartbreak. That’s not love. That’s manipulation.
How it must break His heart when we walk around so desperate for a love He waits to give us each and every day.
Moment by moment we have the choice to live in our own strength and risk failure or to reach across the gap and grab hold of God’s unwavering strength.
Lord, have mercy on all that jiggles on me. And my soul. And my obviously whacked-out brain.
You are my fortress. A fortress is a strong, high place. It’s the place You lift me so fear can no longer have access to me. Fear can’t catch what it can no longer reach. What a comfort this is. You lift me high like this when I lift my soul in worship of Your holy name.
There is no perfect decision – only the perfectly surrendered decision to press through our fears and know that God is working in us to bring about good through us. Let’s state it.
The enemy loves to take our rejection and twist it into a raw, irrational fear that God really doesn’t have a good plan for us.
Satan knows what consumes us controls us. Therefore the more consumed we are with rejection, the more he can control our emotions, our thinking, and our actions.
We can go to Bible study and amen every point made, but if we don’t apply it to our lives, we won’t be changed.
If you wait for what your heart desires, you treasure it more when you finally do get it.
Thought for the Day: I have to make the choice every day to interrupt my fleshly tendencies of yelling and getting angry over minor things.
Comfort zones don’t have to be comfortable – they’re just familiar. It’s where you feel like you belong. And, where you feel you belong is where you will stay.
Anything that infuses us with humility is good. Even if it feels a bit like humiliation in the moment, the workings of humility within are a gift.
I can rest in the fact that God is in control.