I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn Your righteous laws! Psalm 119:7 NIV Bible
God's blessed me with an 80+ pound weight loss and He has allowed the vast majority of it to stay off for over 30 years. "Did I really learn anything through all of this?" was the thought on my heart, so it's what I want to share with you today.
- First of all, I can't be so arrogant as to take credit for any of the weight loss, because it started when I put my life, my body, and my stress into the Lord God's very capable hands.
- I learned that I am a sinful human being with many shortcomings, but the Lord loves me despite all of these.
- I learned that I can try to manage my weight and my food, but it always backfired on me, because I was trying to be in control of these things, instead of putting them into Christ's very capable hands.
- I learned that when I turned to food to calm me when I was stress or bored, I was making food a false god, instead of turning these things over to Jesus to be in control of my life and my family's lives.
- I learned that if I am prayerful and truly listen to the feelings He puts on my heart, the Lord will show and guide me about what I should and shouldn't do.
- I learned that the Lord God loves me just as I am whether I am thin or heavy or something in between!
- I learned that there have been times where I didn't love myself whether I was thin or heavy or something in between!
- I learned that when I'm fearful or stressed, if I pray about it, the Lord God always sees the BIG picture and will either take care of the issue in His timing, or guide me in what I should or shouldn't do.
- I learned that just because I was blessed with losing weight, doesn't make me more special than anyone else, because the Lord can do this for each of us, if we truly ask Him. [Note: He had lessons for me to learn first, like how food had become a false god in my life, before He allowed the weight to come off.]
- I learned that when the Lord has done something so wonderful for us, it's good to be open to sharing it with others in a way that's beneficial and not arrogant.
- I've learned that I don't truly have lessons for you to learn. I'm just writing down the things the Lord has on my heart to share.
