So, I am in day one of my new journey with Made to Crave. So far, this book is amazing. I am already in Chapter 3 and I am not a fast reader.This book is wearing me out and both are so related.
Can I tell you why I love Made to Crave? It has given me an awareness of food that I didn't have before. I knew that I would use food to replace my desire for God. To be my comfort and my protection. Yet I didn't really know that I used food to replace God. Does that make sense? It was a level of denial that I was living in that as my eyes are now opened, I see that every hunger craving for high fructose corn syrup was first a craving for satisfaction, comfort, love, protection, caring that God was to provide. Instead, I fill my mouth and my heart with cinnamon sugar donuts and soda.
Reality stinks! And I don't want to live in the insanity of food...eating and eating more, expecting to go down to a size 8!
So, when those cravings come, I have started to pray:
God, help me to desire you rather than a Cadberry egg.
Inspire me to start REALLY taking care of myself.
And using scripture has really helped...
I cast my anxiety [about food] on you because you care for me!
I know my spirit is willing, but my body is weak so please help me to make good choices.
I will take every thought about cheeseburgers captive.
It sounds funny but I am not trying to be funny. I am really focused on making God the Lord of my life again. The idol of food must be torn down and I am embarrassed to say that I have worship it for too long.
So my new journey begins. And I know there will be roadblocks. I totally forgot to bring my lunch today. My amazing salad is sitting on my kitchen counter, getting warm and gathering dust. So know my prayer looks like this...
God, help me to go to the grocery store and make choices that will uplift my temple...since your Spirit lives in it, I wanna make sure it's up to code.
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