Monday, December 31, 2012

I surrender


Right on the threshold of a new year...I am recommitting myself to surrender.  Seven years about I surrendered the faulty, unfruitful actions that I tried over and over again to no avail as far as weight loss was concerned. 

 

 

I tried calorie counting clubs, pills, purchased every book on diets there was...exercised and restricted, controlled myself into weight loss and like a breaking dam, my self-willed remedy eventually broke...and every food item that I had previously resisted was devoured in a feeding frenzy that resulted in regaining lost weight plus an addition 5 to ten pounds.

 

 

Today, I am thankful to God for helping me to come to the end of self...dropped illusion that I could "fix" myself with the next diet, exercise program, etc...mine was a malady deeper than these surface fixes....I needed God to highlight and help dig up and discard unhealthy thinking and acting that was embedded in my value system.  God was like and continues to be like "Combofix"( a free, computer virus seek and destroy software) that goes on a seek and destroy mission in my operating system...seeking and helping me to destroy unhealthy thinking and doing that no longer serves me...the thinking and acting that assure that I remained obese.


Today, by the Grace of God, I am well over one hundred pounds lighter...and have been a healthy body size for almost four years...this is a miracle.  This blog is dedicated to sharing my experience..what worked for me and how God performed this miracle and continues to perform this miracle in my life one day at a time as I choose life...even when I get off track, I ask for help and surrender to God's wisdom...God's strengthening process....I overcome...I am victorious...one day at a time...

 
Have you tried it your way...the diet clubs, the diet pills...to no avail...are you willing to surrender your way and to ask God for help and then take healthy actions as he presents them?  Are you willing to go to God today in a prayer of surrender, "God, show me the way out of this perceived no way...you are the way...the "Answer Man"...I have no more answers...I surrender to your curriculum of development and I look forward to victory as I hold your hand"...