I am so excited. Tomorrow is Friday. Not only is tomorrow Friday but my husband is getting off early to go to Jesse’s game and it is his last weekend working 2nd shift for a long while. I hate him being on 2nd shift. For one he is usually my biggest supporter when it comes to all things healthy. He makes sure I get a chance to fix dinner, work out, and am able to go shopping for the things we need to make this diet work. Without him here not only am I shorthanded but I also lose motivation a little more quickly. Not to mention we don’t get to talk much. I’m not sure texting is really a good communication tool in a marriage. The verdict is still out on that one. It is fast and convenient but not reliable and sometime things can be miscommunicate. So I am super glad we only have a few more nights of 2nd shift.
I am also excited about the weekend being right around the corner. I have a couple of baby showers to go to. I also have a fun event to go to this weekend at church. They are presenting a “Fashion Show” and some of my favorite people will be out there showing us all about fashion. I fittingly do not have a part in this fashion show because quite frankly I do not have any fashion sense. I don’t mean it as a slam on myself – I just mean it as – you gotta know your strengths and fashion is one I know I don’t have. That is ok by me. However, one of my favorite friends is giving her testimony at this event. I am so excited for her because I know that God has been leading her to do this for quite some time now. Isn’t it amazing how God works – he leads your heart gently nudging you in a certain direction and then he gives you a desire and a want to for His will and then after He has prepared your heart and your will then He gives you an opportunity to do what He has given you the desire to do.
I feel the same way about my desire to get healthy. God has been leading me for years now. I look back at pictures from a few years back and I see the person that I use to be and think to myself – hey that’s me – why couldn’t I see myself for what I really am back then. I am a daughter of the King of King’s and Lord of Lords. Psalms 45:11 says “The king loves your beauty. Because he is your master, you should obey him.” (New Century Version) He tells me in His word over and over of His love and His protection. He reminds us that we need to listen to Him and do His will to have victory. “Every child of God can defeat the world, and our faith is what gives us this victory. 5No one can defeat the world without having faith in Jesus as the Son of God.” 1 John 5:4-5. I think the verse that God really used to make me see that the way I was caring for my body was wrong and that started this new desire in my heart to get healthy is in Romans 12:1-2 “Dear friends, God is good. So I beg you to offer your bodies to him as a living sacrifice, pure and pleasing. That's the most sensible way to serve God. 2Don't be like the people of this world, but let God change the way you think. Then you will know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to him.”
I love the way The Message puts it . . . “Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”
God says through His word that we are to take every part of our life and put it before Him. We are to choose His ways over the worlds. Usually that is not easy. You not only have to fight what your own desires but you also feel like you stick out like a sour thumb. You know that feeling when all eyes are on you and you just wish you could disappear. Sometimes that is what God uses to make others see His glory. So even though I look at the few old pictures I have of me and hate that I ever let myself get to that point – I know that everything God is changing in me will be a testimony to His power and His glory. I want the people who see a difference in me to be able to see it is God who made that difference in me. For instance running – anyone who knew me knew that running was not ever something that I would choose to do. I never ever would have imagined that for myself. Now I look at running as a gift from God. I don’t take it for granted ever because I know it was Him who gave me the desire, plan, discipline and strength to do it.
I fully believe that He has guided me every step of the way from working out at the gym for the last 4 years with my husband, to running and even this last diet plan that He shared with me through another Christian friend. It is hard to see my size before as part of these gifts but it really was. Without my need I wouldn’t have cried out to Him and He wouldn’t have had a need to answer. Without this need there wouldn’t be a class full of other Christian women in our Tuesday night Bible study (Made To Crave) learning more about how we can live our lives to Honor Him. So whatever your problem may be, your craving may be, whatever your issue is – look at it in a different light tonight. Look at it as a great place to start all over with God. Look at it as a place to ask Him to show you the way to go. He is faithful.
Today’s meals – eggs, roasted chicken, salad w/ tuna, apples, soy nut energy mix, yogurt, oven roasted chicken w/ broccoli, carrots, cauliflower and cheese, home-made turkey sausage (ground turkey and seasoning), yogurt w/ fiber one.
Today’s exercise – weights at the gym for 50 minutes.
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