As the blog description says, this blog is meant to be a place of encouragement as women strive to grow closer to the Lord while struggling with food issues.
Each week, we will offer scripture, personal stories and struggles, and lessons learned along the way. We recognize that each of us are on different places on our journey and could benefit from many different resources. If you have one, feel free to let us know!
At the beginning of each week, there will be a devotion based on one of the 3:16 scriptures. It will surprise you what some of these say, but hopefully they will spur you on in your journey towards surrendered living.
This week's focus verse:
He said to the woman: I will intensify your labor pains; you will bear children in anguish. Your desire will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you,
Genesis 3:16
There are consequences for disobedience to the Lord! We know this in our minds and our hearts, but do we recognize it in our actions? I so often don't. I can literally being telling myself in my head the right thing to do while my hands (or mouth, or both) are doing the exact opposite.
The first sin began with an act of eating something that was forbidden. It wasn't about the fruit, however, it was about disobedience. And while I believe all food (that God created) is free for us to eat (Mark 7:19), and everything is permissible, it is not beneficial! (1 Corinthians 6:12 & 10:23.) God loves us enough to give us the freedom to choose - choose Him, choose obedience, choose health. He also gives us guides and helps when we ask for them.
This first verse in the 3:16 series it to remind us of the consequences (often graver than we'd imagine) are real. A good question to keep in mind: to be the best, healthiest, most energetic I can be in service for the Lord, is this thing beneficial and or constructive? A hard question, but it might just kick off the start of permanent change.
Tracy Wainwright
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