Victory over Food

Been a long time since I have visited this blog! Many reasons for that! Haven't stopped the battle to win over food, but haven't had a lot to say about it and have had even less victories! But that all changes today. What makes today any different than any other day I have said that in this battle with the bulge? Well, today I carry with me the tools, the weapons that will bring the Victory!

I have learned much about the Spiritual world and my life in Christ since last I visited this topic. I have shared with many that I was fighting my battles with a water gun when I needed a machine gun! I know hold the machine gun and every other weapon I could possibly ever need to win the war that wages for my soul and my obedience!

God has been laying this battle on my heart for some time now...again. But it is hard to gear up for a battle that you have been slaughtered in so many times before. But this time is different! I walked in obedience this morning and pulled out a Bible Study I started with a group of amazing women, but dropped because of too many things going on in my life. I got it out this morning to pick up this battle again as it seems to be the issue in my life God wants to deal with right now. But even before I got to the Bible Study, God took me to Romans 6 and spoke to me! I love it when words I have read countless times before jump off the page in a new way speaking to me at just the right moment about just the issue I have before me! It brings such encouragement and hope!

I know this isn't true for everyone, but for me, food is a spiritual issue! I am in bondage to food....addicted to food...it is not different than an alcoholic or a drug addict...mine is just legal and food is necessary so I can't go "cold turkey"!

However it is just as deadly - both physically and spiritually! The older I get, the more I feel the weight. Plus this is the first time since college that I have quit all physical exercise. Not because I consciously did it, but because I just can't find the time with five children including a new baby! But I must! I must for those five children, and because God said to! Obedience is going to be a key word for me in this journey!

God took me to Romans 6 this morning. The fact is my eating when I shouldn't, using food to comfort myself, using food to "stimulate" my tired body, any of those reasons and many more that I eat are sin! They are bondage. Romans 6 talks of how we who have been crucified with Christ, those of us who have been buried in baptism and raised to walk in newness of life, accepting Jesus as Lord, walk in victory over death, ie: SIN! Verse 8: "Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him." And again in verses 10-14: "For the death that He died, He died, to sin once fora ll; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of you body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are no longer under law but under grace." Praise God! If I take "food" and substitute it for the word "sin" in those verses, then I have the freedom that I need to be walking in instead of the bondage that I currently walk in.

As I have learned about spiritual freedom, I have learned that for some freedom is an instant and for some it is a process. As much as I have longed for my freedom from food to be instant, I believe God wants me to go through the process so I fully understand what freedom means, and He wants me leaning on Him each step of the way!

I am ready! I am ready to slay this giant once and for all! I am ready to put the old self behind me and put on my new self...physically to represent spiritually what will be going on inside!

And if you have been reading this blog for a while you know that means at 173 pounds, I will be piercing my nose because it will mean food is once and for all off the throne of my heart, replaced by the only true King...Jesus Christ, which means my heart will be "pierced" for Him! :)