Lovely Friend,
I have been on my weight loss
journey for about 1 ½ months now and I have lost a total of about 9 pounds in
that amount of time. That averages to
about 1 ½ pounds per week. I am
definitely on the…S…L…O…W road to weight loss, which is EXACTLY where I NEED to
be! I have heard the phrase, “God, I
want you to teach me patience, and I want you to teach me, right now!” Oh, how this pertains to my attitude about
weight loss! In my head I was, “God, I
want to lose weight, and I want to lose it, right now!” But the thing about “right now” is that no
habits change. There is no leaning on
God. There is no dealing with those
deeply rooted emotions that are tied to food.
So, I am taking the hard way, the slow way. I am rebelling against the American way and
leaning into Joshua!
Last week, as I was driving (The
Holy Spirit knows he can grab a few quiet minutes with me in the car!), the
Holy Spirit spoke to my spirit about a scripture in Joshua. This was a scripture that I knew all too
well. It is one that I dare admit that I
even overlooked and had gotten to familiar with. The phrase that the Spirit of the Lord
deposited into me was “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua
24:15) At that moment, this phrase took
on a new meaning to me! This phrase
became my health cry! “ As for me, and my house, we will serve the Lord [in our
health and eating habits].” This revelation
was HUGE for me!
As a Christian, I am supposed to
stand out in everything that I do, not in a judgmental way, but rather, in a
way that screams “She MUST know Jesus!”
So far, my eating habits have been so far from the way that the Lord
would have me live! But, the beauty
about the revelation was that it did not make me feel guilty or horrible about
myself. My friends, this is not the way
that our Savior works! It was more like
an “ah-ha” moment for me. It was like
“God, wow! You have designed our bodies
and you have designed the food that would make them function well. You created the food that would prevent
diseases and suffering from them. You
are awesome, my God!” I love the way
that my Savior so tenderly redirects my path so that He can save me (often from
myself.)
Jess
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