God strength

It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. Psalm 18:32

Verse Reflections:  Yes!! God has armed me with the strength to eat healthy.  After forty years of trying to do this myself I have to have His strength, His power to do this.  “My way” is not perfect, not even close to perfect. In fact, my way is abject failure.  My way is not consistent.  My way leads to binging.   My way leads to self-recrimination.  My way leads to jumping on the scale to judge my success or failure.  My way leads to diet pills, the latest fast weight loss fad, binging and purging.  My way leads to looking in the mirror and crying.  God’s way allows me to throw away the scales.  God’s way allows me to eat great, delicious foods every day and even have one splurge.  God’s way eliminates the binging.  God’s way eliminates the physical compulsions and cravings that occurred daily when I ate too much sugar or carbohydrates.  God’s way allows me to look in the mirror and know He created me as a perfect being.  How exciting to know that we are armed with all the strength we need to make our way perfect.  Once again, God has this.  Just give it to Him daily and the crazy battle we have been fighting has been won.

Prayer:  Oh Lord I fall on my knees in praise for this verse.  I am so weak.  I have tried to arm myself for this battle for years.  I have chosen the worst weapons possible.  I have chosen temporary solutions, temporary weapons that allow the enemy to come back even stronger.  You have given us a permanent way to eat that is not unreasonable.  It is healthy, it is easy if we will just do it.  Thank You for giving us this option that is not as extreme as Your command to Daniel.  I am just being honest when I say I could not eat just fruits and vegetables the rest of my life.  You allow everything in this plan.  You are allowing me to have my favorites if I limit it to one portion a day of the “non-God” foods.  This took me a while to get used to but I am there and it is totally doable thanks to You arming me with strength.  THANK YOU for this amazing, awesome plan and the strength to make it happen.  You way is perfect and therefore my way following You is perfect.