Labor Pains: Pushing Through Health Challenges
Working out can make your muscles sore, cause cramps, and leave you feeling fatigued. Likewise, therapy for an eating disorder can often make you feel worse about your problem instead of better. As a result, it is sometimes truly difficult to make yourself get up and do it all over again. I know you have heard it before, but it truly is worth it. This experience is no different from the labor pains a mother goes through to deliver her child.
Yes, pain is involved, but in the end, the new life the woman has given birth to is all that matters. It is the same for you. Right now, you are in labor. You are pushing yourself to deliver the healthy and fit version of you. That version is buried underneath the fat and cowering behind the eating disorder. God says, “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you” (Galatians 4:19). Please don’t give up! Labor on! Push through it!
Reclaiming Your Power
Jesus said those who believe in Him would not only perform the same miracles He did, but they would also do even greater works (John 14:12). So why do Christians act helpless, hopeless, and powerless? This is especially true for something as minor as health and fitness when compared to His miracles. We bury our heads in the sand during every crisis and roll over to play dead when hard trials come. We feel like losing 100, 250, or 500 pounds is an impossible feat. Some cannot even imagine a life free of an eating disorder, so they do not even try.
If you have the ability to heal the sick, raise the dead, and cast out demons as Christ did, why can’t you see that losing weight is nothing in comparison? Why do you believe that overcoming an eating disorder is an impossible task? With God, nothing is impossible (Matthew 19:26).
A Change in Perspective
You must change your perspective. When you feel like you cannot push past negative thoughts and feelings, emphatically declare, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13)! When the labor pains intensify, embrace and walk in the authority given to you through Jesus Christ our Lord. Speak life to your situation and take charge of your health. Then you will finally obtain and live the healthy, fit, and victorious life you were meant to have.
If you are ready to give birth to the healthy and fit version of yourself by eating and drinking for the glory of God, purchase your copies of the Eating as an Act of Worship Workbook and the Eating as an Act of Worship Teacher’s Edition online today at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.com. In the books, you will learn biblical principles regarding the body, dieting, exercising, and maintaining a healthy body for God’s glory.
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