Following the new lesson on telling myself NO, I spent the weekend with my church at our annual retreat. I had a lot of internal turmoil happening with the realization that I have a dark side and a light side. In that, I now can choose to pull apart what the thoughts are and where they come from. In many ways I wish I could understand myself better.
I want a cookie. Why? Beyond taste, what am I looking for? What does the cookie represent? Where is the need?
More importantly, so what??????? (In asking these questions, I am not just holding the thought captive, I am interrogating it, making it answer for itself)
Eating is about nutrition for survival. Marketing strategies have taken place which refocus that into pleasure and senses. Don’t fall for it! Satan is in the details. If an activity, food, behavior or thought doesn’t glorify God, then it glorifies Satan. Period. It’s black and white. Like you cannot be a little pregnant – you either are or are not – you cannot glorify Satan and disappoint God a little. You either do or do not.
Therefore, your thought process has been backwards. It isn’t about eating food you enjoy that may or may not be healthy; it’s about eating healthy food you may or may not enjoy. If you get both, yay! If you have to pick one, HEALTHY is now the ideal. And to go against that is to tell God you prefer Satan win this one. Is that ever true?
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