I've been reading DJ's book... and by DJ, I of course mean Candace Cameron Bure. lol It's called Reshaping It All and is about how her walk with God factored into her weight loss and health journey. A bit cheesy at times, but it's been encouraging and given me continued motivation in my own journey.
I haven't written much about health and weight loss for a while, and there are good reasons for that. I read a post about how we sometimes proudly announce our goals and then people get excited for us and we get the attention and praise as if we'd already accomplished them... then we lose part of our motivation to actually follow through and DO IT. So I've set some new goals that I'm not announcing here, but I will absolutely write about them when I've accomplished them and there's a reason to celebrate!! =)
I will say that I'm in a good place right now, by the grace of God. Sometimes I'm hesitant to embrace that and feel happy and hopeful, but I'm not letting the enemy pull me down today. A few weeks back, I wrote on Post-It notes and posted verses about STRENGTH and being STRONG all over my house. It might be the best thing I've done all year, because seeing those verses and saying them out loud and thinking about them over and over has reignited the process of renewing my mind. I also heard a fantastic sermon about repentance and have prayed for God to create a clean heart and renew a right spirit inside me. I am doing my best to walk with God and take steps of obedience. I can tell a difference in my thought patterns, and it's making me want more of God and His Word. He alone has the power to transform me from the inside out, to give me a far better life than being conformed to hopeless apathy and selfishness of the world!!
The joy of the Lord is my strength! I am strong and I am courageous. I will not be frightened and I will not be dismayed, for the Lord my God is with me wherever I go. I am clothed in the joy of the Lord (strength) and in dignity, and I laugh without fear of the future. God gives me strength when I am weary and increases my power when I am weak. He strengthens me according to His Word!I'm making some good, healthy changes a little along, but feeling free from the unrealistic pressure, panic, and perfectionism that typically set in when I try to make these improvements. It feels balanced, and I'm excited about that and so thankful! Pray that I will hold on to the truth and keep making progress in becoming healthier spiritually, emotionally, and physically!!
Back to the picture I chose for the verse above... in Reshaping it All, Candace uses balloons as a metaphor, talking about how we can blow them up ourselves and they will simply sink and fall with gravity, or we can take the extra effort to fill them up with helium and they will rise and float and be far more delightful. The balloons are all the same; it's what we put into them that makes all the difference. I smiled as I read that because it feels like I am filling my heart up with God's Word and looking to Him as my source of STRENGTH, so my hope is beginning to naturally float rather than sink, and it's not in my own strength at all! God is so faithful, and He rewards those who sincerely seek Him. He is the author and finisher of my faith, and He promises that He will complete the good work that He has started! ❤
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