I am going to write throughout the day so that I don't forget stuff. I got up early and got on the elliptical for 15 min and then did a few ab workouts. I didn't work out for a week so I will be working back up to my 45 min workout. It shouldn't take long though. My memory verse for the week is "Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him. Fear the Lord, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing." Psalm 34:8-9. It's hard to trust God nowadays. We over spend and buy waay to much to prepare for the future rather than trust that God will provide. "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money (or food). Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. f that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:24-34 This is one of my favorite passages. I tend to worry......a lot. I worry about the future, the past, the present, and any time in between. I have a lot of trouble trusting that God will take care of me and my family. I stock up on extra food and stuff just in case. The trust issue also coincides with the eating as well. God can fill you up like nothing else if you let Him. I just have a hard time trusting that He can. In my mind it just doesn't make sense. I have been using food to fill up my "aching place" for so long that it's hard to believe that God can really truly fill that place. It's a lie that satan loves for us to believe and we've been told all our lives that food or other things can fill us up. In all the movies where does everyone automatically run when they have been hurt? They pull out a big gallon of ice cream. I don't think I've ever seen anyone go through a bad break up and call their girlfriends over for Bible study and prayer, but that is the only thing that ultimately would help. I know personally after I eat a ton of junk I end up feeling more empty than I started out with. It only helps during the time that I am actually eating.
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