For years I was obese and I would never admit it, I hid behind clothes and shoes. It wasn't until about six years ago my husband asked me if I was happy? My reply was yes, I had a wonderful husband, children, career and ministry was going great. Deep down I didn't feel good. I looked great on the outside but felt bad on the inside.
I never equated how I was feeling physically to being over weight, I honestly thought it was because I was doing too much. One day I was bending down trying to tie my shoes and all of a sudden I was out of breath, it literally felt like I was choking just from trying to bend down. I immediately knew that I needed to do something. But What? I had tried, slim-fast, Redux and a list of other weight loss alternatives, but what about this time, what was I suppose to do?
My answer came out as I wept to God, I began asking God to help me in an area of my life that I had no control over. This time was different for me, with tears in my eyes I told God how I really felt, about my weight from a child to my adult life. I began to weep about how kids would pick on me for being "fat" and how I use to have low self-esteem because of my weight. The more I confessed my feelings the more God began pouring his love and word over me, I was being healed.
That moment of breakthrough, changed my life for the better! I began taking small steps toward losing weight and I never told anyone I was on a diet, but rather I was on a LIFESTYLE change. Step One in my journey: I had to realize that I needed help, no one could speak for me, I had to do it for me. Step Two: My confession allowed God to heal me.
Maybe your story is similiar to mine or maybe you haven't had a problem with your weight but you have something(s) in your life that are "weighing" you down. Our weight could be our job, family member, finances, depression, low-self esteem, or anything that is keeping you in bondage. Hebrews 12:1b says. "let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us."
There are many more steps that I will blog about in the upcoming weeks and months, but Today is about you! It's time for you to release some weight in your life. I love you, but God loves you more! Until next time.....
Additional Scriptures: Deut. 31:6; Joshua 1:9; John 10:10, 3 John 1:2
