Good morning friends. I'm up bright and early this morning and feeling especially happy and excited! I've got my starbucks anniversary blend coffee setting on the table beside me....aww, the aroma is fabulous! My family is coming in today for a visit!!! WoooHOOO! I'm so excited to entertain them in my new house and then spend the rest of the weekend on the lake in a lake house here. My mom and Steve rented a lake house for the weekend and a pontoon boat. What fun! I can't wait to kiss my nephew's face off either!!! :)
I'm also feeling motivated to write about a topic that I have a heart for. For it wasn't long ago, about 7 years ago to be exact, that I let the devil get a hold of me. That is when I started believing his lies. The lies that I wasn't good enough, skinny enough, smart enough, pretty enough, etc. Believing the lies led to a dangerous disorder. I began to binge and purge, once a week, once a day, everyday, three times a day. I don't know who I was during this time...I don't know how I let myself get to that point. How in the world did I ever think that was okay?! The devil is sneaky, he'll make you believe a lot of things...just like he did Eve. He must have been pretty tricky to make her believe it was okay to eat that fruit after the Almighty God told her not to eat! He tricks and lies to me and you today. Don't let him get you!!
Proverbs 14:10 says, "A heart at peace gives life to the body." My prayer for you an myself is that we will be at peace in our own body and with our own body. Are you at peace with the person God made you? If you don't peace within yourself you won't ever have peace with other people. God could send you another mom friend you've been praying for, but if you're not at peace with yourself that won't work. Before you can experience healthy relationships, you've got to be happy with who God made you!
If you're focused on imperfections, like I was for so long, and wishing you looked like someone else, were someone else, you are allowing the devil to steal your peace and replace it with wrong thinking. Please don't get caught in that trap, I can tell you from experience it is an awful place to be!
The devil will try to convince you that you are a weak little worm and when he does he laughs! He's evil, he's mean, he's the father of lies! You need to declare out loud, "I am a child of the Most High King and He thinks I am great!" As a matter of fact he is enthralled with your beauty! (Psalm 45:11) It doesn't matter the what size you are, the color of your hair, how tall you are...God made you just the way you are! Imagine spending a long time making something for your son or daughter, making sure everything is just the way you want it. Then when you give it to them they say, I don't like it! And they start to tear it up and destroy the masterpiece you created just for them. Our body is a masterpiece that our Father created just for us, embrace it, don't pick it apart and destroy it!
You may not be happy with every aspect of yourself, but you need to be happy about the basic person that God created you to be. When you start practicing that mindset, your peace will return! And that is a great way to live!
I now have that peace. Thank God I only suffered from my eating disorder about a year. He sent two wonderful people into my life to help me overcome! I couldn't have done it without the faith that my Almighty God would heal me! "He is the truth and the truth will set you free." John 8:32
Prayer for you and me: Lord, I pray that Your peace will overtake me today. Please take away all wrong thinking from me.
Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyheJ480LYA
(A lot of these ideas came from my Daily Wisdom for Mother's devotion book)
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