Hello friend, so glad to see you back for this next lesson.
Have you ever wanted to have a healthy attitude toward food? To just eat when hungry and not concern yourself about it otherwise?
For years, I was obsessed with food, which was evident in the extra weight I carried on my body. I would barely finish one meal before I was planning the next. Food was in my thoughts so often that one might think I was in love with it. As a pilot, I encounter many people who are food obsessed; they talk about it incessantly and even plan their travels around it. But I have come to know that this is a meager and short-sighted existence.
The thing that has happened to me since God taught me the truth about getting a plan from God, intermittent fasting, etc. is that my preoccupation with food has faded away. Food and I no longer have an unhealthy relationship. I no longer look to food for comfort, friendship, stress relief, or when bored. I eat when I’m hungry, whatever food is available at the time, following the plan God gives me the day before.
You will know you’re done obsessing about food when your stomach begins to growl, and you realize you haven’t thought about food since your last meal. This is a normal and healthy way to relate to food. Eat when hungry, enjoy it, and then forget about it.
Today, we will see that the Holy Spirit always leads us away from the temporary and to the eternal. He lifts our heads and gets us to view life from a higher perspective than the base needs of the human body.
Question 1. Have you been seeing the power of the gospel to break the power of food in your life? Please explain:
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Sue answers the above question in this way:
"Well I started this journey Oct 19, and I am still going at it on December 14. I praise God that I have had very few actual temptations. How surprised I am. I am in awe with Him how simple this has been. All in his strength of course, all because I remember daily what Jesus did for me on the cross, how I am free, and no longer a slave to sin. I do my daily bible readings, and this lessons (both reminding me of the cross and all it means) When I yoke with Jesus, then my burdens are light."
And Wende expresses a heart of gospel hope in her answer:
"The gospel is breaking the power and pull of food in my life! I am looking to the cross daily and remembering that the prison doors have been permanently opened for me. This brings such joy and peace! This captive is free! As I keep my eyes on Jesus, I continue to walk away from that prison. Temptations and obsessions are fading away. I am learning to seek the Spirit's plan and the power to follow it. Eventually, as I keep walking, when I turn around, that prison will be so far away I won't even be able to see it at all!"