What would I do for a Klondike bar?
…ummm, maybe just blow my entire “diet” and throw down late last night…living yet another week with excess “me” on my body. I’m so frustrated… I feel so yucky… I’ve just been eating SOOOO poorly lately… it just makes me feel..well..sick. Our bodies were not designed to inhale such “junk food” on a regular basis and lately it’s been more of a daily occurrence..I can’t seem to get out of “summer vacation mode”…. anyhoo… I’m praying today (I know that’s seems silly to pray about)… but I am praying today that I will be able to exert some form of self-control in dealing with my choices for nourishment.
And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new, ” Revelation 21:5.
I keep returning to this verse almost once a week. It really has been on my heart… the whole concept of Christ making us new… making all things new…. Iam included in the “all things”. Though I feel defeated some days… it doesn’t mean that I must surrender the REST of my days. Though I have failed the morning… I do NOT have to hold up a white flag for my afternoon. There is victory in my Savior… my Redeemer (Isaiah 54:5). As I was reading this morning “Jesus, the Redeemer, is altogether ours and ours forever. All the offices of Christ are held on our behalf…..Jesus has no dignity which He will not employ for our exaltation, and no prerogative which He will not exercise for our defense. His fullness of Godhead is our unfailing, inexhaustible treasury.” (Charles Spurgeon).
Therefore, because of Christ and the work that He accomplished there on the cross, I am no longer enslaved to my mistakes of yesterday. I am a new creation in Him. In order for me to live in my “new” self… found in Him… I must stay in close communication…in prayer… in His word …. all so that I may hear Him when He is whispering to me “Behold, I am making all things new.”
