The [Lord] humbled you, causing you to hunger, and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors have known, to teach you that man doesn't live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Deuteronomy 8:3 NIV Bible
This particular passage really makes me ponder the portion about "Man Doesn't Live on Bread Alone." So many, many years, it seems the main part of my day was focused on what I was going to eat, what I couldn't eat, and what I was planning ahead to eat. Although my faith in God was important to me, it didn't play much of a role in this portion of my life, other than than to ask God to please, "Help me loose the 80+ pounds of extra weight."
At a particular spot in my life, the Lord God showed me that I had "Control Issues!" This carried through to my eating and my relationship with my Lord. Over time, He showed me that food and my obsession with eating and the hope of being thin, had become a false god to me. I was turning to food to comfort me in times of stress or joy, instead of turning to the Lord God, and putting these into Christ's very capable hands.
Once I started turning to Christ instead of food for comfort, my weight started coming off, but not by something I did or 'willed' to happen! The Lord God allowed the weight loss of 80+ pounds and has blessed me by having the vast majority of that weight stay off for over 30 years. At times I've prayerfully contemplated this, in that I prayed for many years prior to this for the Lord to please, "Help me loose the 80+ pounds of extra weight.] The response the Lord had on my heart was all those years, I wanted to be in control. I wanted God to help me loose it. It wasn't until the point, that I put it all into Christ's very capable hands, that it happened, instead of asking God to help Me do it! He can do it for you, as well, if you turn it into Christ's very capable hands!
