Belief Statement #13:
“It feels so rich and fulfilling to eat well, make the right choices for my body,
exercise, burn calories and fat, and sense the strength surging through my muscles.”
As I’ve shared from the creation of this blog, discipline in the area of physical health has always been a very difficult problem for me. Up until April 1st, I had spent the first 34.5 years of my life believing in many false assumptions or “lies” I had told myself over the years which were keeping me bound by the chains of obesity. Every time I wanted to change, I would hit the same wall over and over again—the beliefs that I could not make a lasting change, could not maintain a diet or exercise routine over the long run, could not consistently care for my body the way I should, could never be strong or healthy enough to accomplish any kind of physical goal, could not…could not…could not… As sure as I stand today, I know these beliefs were the only wall I truly faced, “the one I built in my mind.”
In Post #14, I quoted the following verse because I knew that if I were to make any real and lasting progress in the area of discipline, this is exactly what I would need to do:
Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. (12:2 AMP)
By the Spirit of God, my mind has been renewed and transformed because I now believe that I can do every last one of those things I listed above. I have trained myself to feel rich and fulfilled as I “eat well, make the right choices for my body, exercise, burn calories and fat, and sense the strength surging through my muscles”! I absolutely love working out at the gym and feeling the lactic acid rushing through my body as I condition myself to become better and healthier. When I am pushing myself hard to run longer or lift more weights, I hear those words—“strength surging through my muscles”—and it gives me the power to mentally push through the walls that for so long have kept me bound! And that is God’s good and perfect will for me.
What wall have you built in your own mind? What is keeping you from conquering it? Do you want to conquer it, or are you too comfortable letting it conquer you? If you’re anything like me, changing your physical health is not just a wall in your mind; it’s more like Mt. Everest—what seems like an impossible mountain to climb because you lack the energy, the time or the resources to even try to overcome it. Like so many, I tried every diet under the sun throughout my life, but every time I’d come up to that wall in my mind—consciously or unconsciously—I would let it conquer me. I’m done being the conquered one in this story. I’m the conqueror now; the Lord says I am more than a conqueror! I AM an Overcomer.
If you’re ready to conquer this same wall in your mind, I can help you. Ask me how.
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