This morning I wrote my devotional about trusting God. Within 2 hours I was defeated and down-cast, why? Well, I weighed! In the last 30 days, I have lost and gained exactly 6 pounds. This has been my theme song since January. I was devastated.
How can others make it look easy? Yet, when I talk or read about those who are successful in the weight-loss game, they testify it isn't easy.
I fixed my protein drink and sat down to read. This is what I read:
"You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light." 2 Samuel 22:29
Well surely darkness was falling on me! So I turned the page in the devotional to this:
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13
Coincident, I think not!
I have no idea why God is making this so difficult for me. Friend, I'm doing all the right things counting calories, trying to add more fruits and vegetables, yet it is like this weight is trapped on me, and I question God. But why?
Elizabeth Elliot once said, “This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness – in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.”
So in this journey He is teaching me! To learn trust, long-suffering, and the depths of His love. May my prayer be like the man in Mark 9, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
