The Lord God Assures Me

I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie. Galatians 1:20 NIV Bible.

Although this may not exactly relate to the Bible verse listed, the words sure do apply to the topic of this post. The Lord God assures me in so many things. The Lord God assures me that I am: of value to Him. The Lord God assures me that I am: deserving of respect from others. The Lord God assures me that I am: I am a worthwhile person regardless of my size. The Lord God assures me that I am: forgiven, when I ask Him, even when I backtrack in my faith. 

The Lord God assures me that I am: able to put my stress in His very capable hands, instead of eating over it! The Lord God assures me that I am: not good or bad, determined by what the scale says! The Lord God assures me that I am: of much more value to Him than silver or gold. The Lord God assures me that I am: able to be much more patient with others, and He can turn my actions around when I ask Him.

The Lord God assures me that I am: to let Him heal my aching soul, so that I don't continue to beat myself up or allow other people to treat me hatefully! The Lord God assures me that I am: lovable regardless of the judgment errors I have made in the past.  The Lord God assures me that I am: supposed to share with others, the many gifts He's given me! 

My Feelings About My Weight Are Up and Down

 Jesus left there and went along the Sea of Galilee. Then He went up on a mountainside and sat down.  Matthew 15:29 NIV Bible

As I've gotten closer to my goal weight, my feeling about my weight are up and down, which is the only thing that really relates to the Bible verse I selected. That is, unless you consider that this Bible verse has to do with Jesus doing the miracle of feeding the 4,000, which is the second miracle He did by feeding multitudes, both recorded in Matthew 14:13-21 [5,000] and Matthew 15:32-39 [4,000,] and in Mark 6:30-44 [5,000] and Mark 8:1-9 [4,000.] 

The reason this ties in with the Lord God's miracles is that my weight loss and His allowing the vast majority of it to stay off for over 40 years, is a miracle unto itself! It didn't happen by something I did. I had tried a bazillion diets and on some I lost a little weight and gained it back shortly afterward. I had gotten to the point that I was giving up on dieting, and I sat down on my bed to pray and notify God of this decision. 

In the process of this, I prayed, "Lord, if You ever want me to be thin, You'll have to do it, because I can't!" And you know what? The miracle from the Lord started that very same day, not a day earlier, a day later, or even earlier in the day before I said that prayer. From that very day, the Lord took away my cravings for large amounts of food, carbs, and sweets. He showed me that food had become a false god to me, because I was turning to food for comfort in times of stress, instead of turning these things over to His very capable hands! Once I had prayed that, turning my control over my eating to Him, He had the rest fall into place. He allowed a weight loss of over 80 pounds, and as I said, He has allowed the vast majority of it to stay off all these years! He can do the same for you, if you put your stress, eating, and life in His very capable hands!

This is Very Late!!!!

 By this time it was late in the day, so His disciples came to Him. "This is a remote place," they said, "and it's already very late." Mark 6:35 NIV Bible

 Well, this passage has little to do with the actual meaning of the Bible verse, since it's about Jesus feeding the 5,000. It has more to do with my delays with putting new posts on the Christian Overeaters Past and Present blog site.

My biggest goal is to continue to work on Daily Chapters of the Bible [in Smaller Chunks] https://dailychaptersofbible.blogspot.com/ and Books of the Bible [in Smaller Chunks] https://bibleinsmallerchunks.blogspot.com/ since the Lord God put it on my heart to do this.

In doing so, it means that I get behind with adding new Christian Overeaters Past and Present posts. I apologize for that, but sometimes it's tricky trying to juggle all these at once. But I feel that the good Lord will give me the balance to focus on the priorities He wants at any given time. So, please be patient with me, and also consider checking out either of the two sites I've mentioned, because it has become apparent to me that the Lord feels this work is vitally important to be shared with all!