Aug 17, 2013 - Day 9 of SD: Spent this beautiful Saturday morning picking okra while the chickens clucked happily at my feet in their little chicken jungle. I celebrated two small victories yesterday! The first was turning down a bite of cinnamon roll bread pudding at Abi-Haus. One bite would not have killed me, but I want to defeat that mindset, so I declined. The second was to refrain from eating some chips and queso blanco at Camacho and Charlie's last night. No need to explain how difficult that was. This morning's Made to Crave devotional tied in perfectly with those victories.
I feel that we Christians sometimes fail to see that our overeating hinders our relationship with God. After all, we NEED food to survive, so what's the big deal if we eat too much of it or make unhealthy choices? It is a big deal! Romans 14:19-20a tells us, "Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food." So if my choices, such as overeating and making unhealthy food choices, will destroy my body, then those things are obstacles to God's grace, and they must be avoided.
So, those victories I celebrated yesterday were not small after all, but HUGE leaps toward the peace and edification that are the true source of my hunger!
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