“God holds your hand”

For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, ‘Do not fear; I will help you. Isaiah 41:13 NIV

Verse Reflections:  We do not have to fear!  We do not have to worry about losing weight, about sticking with this plan.  We do not have to worry about life.  God will take hold of our right hand.  How awesome that God will TAKE hold of your right hand.  There are times in life where we are too weak to reach up to Him.  There are times in life when we just don’t have the energy to take the initiative in our relationship with Him.  How comforting to know that He will reach down and take hold of our hand.  We do have to make Him our Lord in order to give Him that power.  He needs to be the one we allow to lead our lives, the core of our soul, the core of our decisions.  I find it interesting that each time I discover a verse like this where He takes the initiative in our relationship, it begins with the word Lord.  Once He becomes our Lord, the leader of our lives we are given so much.  He is telling us that we do not have to fear in this world.  He is telling us that He will help us.  I can’t imagine going through life without knowing that I have the greatest power in the universe by my side.  I don’t know about you, but I just can’t do life by myself.  It can be overwhelming.  And this is one of the reasons I have turned to food.  It gives me a temporary high.  It allows me to “control” something in my life.  If something in life stinks at least I have cookies or doughnuts or hamburgers or French fries or a glass of wine…  And I am the best expert on earth to find a reason to make myself feel better with food.  God is telling us here that we do not need that.  He’s got life.  Imagine that problem that is in the back of your mind right now.  Hand it over to Him and thank Him for taking care of it.   Now relax and enjoy your day because God says we do not have to fear.  He will take our hand and help us.  Eat His foods and chillax.

Prayer:  Father, thank You for taking my hand today.  Thank You for telling me that I do not have to fear.  Thank You for loving me.  This verse means so much to me.  I love knowing that Your big self is up there loving on me and caring enough about me and my problems to reach down and take my hand.  Lord, I don’t take this for granted.  For me being able to relax, to “not fear” to know that You are helping me allows me to eat the right foods instead of choosing foods to spite the system or the way my day is going.  Today I am going to chillax because I know You are taking my hand and helping me through life and thus You are helping me eat God foods.  Let’s have fun today Father eating the glorious foods You created for us to eat here on earth.  I am excited to see where this day goes with You leading the way.  I love You more than You can imagine and I am going to glorify You with my choices of foods, my mindset and my body (Your Holy temple).