Psalm 19:7-14

I usually go to facebook or my favorite book right after I make Nate's breakfast if I don't have school. But today I reached for my bible.

It wasn't out of obligation or because I felt it would make God happier with me. But just because . . . I wanted it. I wanted it in my hand, I wanted to glean something about God from it. It wasn't a big moment, I didn't feel super empowered or anything, I just wanted to hold a piece of Him . . . if that makes sense.

Anyway, I know it's not most ppl's favorite way of going to the word, but I just opened it and decided to read what I landed on. Boy am I glad! God can lead. Pshhh to all the haters.

So I came to Psalms 19. And verses 7-14 were perfect for what I'm experiencing right now.

God's Instructions on How to Live My Life:
-Perfect
-Change me
-Revive my Soul
-Trustworthy
-Make me Wise
-Right
-Give Joy to my Heart
-Radiant
-Give light to my eyes
-Pure
-Sure
-Righteous
-Better than Money (gold)
-Sweeter than food (honey)
-warn me from trouble
-offer me a reward

My Part + Consequences
-Overeating and turning to food for entertainment is a willful sin. I am not only choosing to sin against God, my Best Friend, but I'm delighting in it!
-Allowing this foothold to go on has put me in bondage, it truly rules over me.
-But God can keep me from it. I can be blameless and innocent of this.
-May my words and thoughts be pleasing to You God.

The Process (as it stands now)
1. Memorize.
-Get in the Word, allow God to lead me on this subject and get those Scriptures into my heart.
2. Pray.
-Pray at the start of the day, when I start to think about food to much, when the idea of food gives me a really happy feeling, while preparing a meal, when I'm about to eat, while I'm eating, after I eat and so on.
-That may seem ridiculous, but I'm not about to be that guy with the arrows who only pounded 3 times! I'm going to create a hole in the floor of my transgressions, I want to be delivered from my adversary, y'all so I'll do whatever it may take!
3. Trust.
-Do I trust that God will deliver me? He is so faithful. He has in the past and that's what I'll cling to this time too. There have been 2 very very very hard parts of my life and He's delivered me from both of them. Both times I thought it would never end, I thought I would struggle for the rest of my life. While I still have flare ups, I have been delivered! Seriously, I wish I could go into detail on something so public because it's just so cool!
4. Obey
-Trusting Him means being patient enough (Fruit of the Spirit) to allow Him to follow through on His promise to fight for me and deliver me. Often when the storm is at it's roughest.
-Resolving to refuse to sin against God and leaning on Jesus' enabling power to keep me from sinning. His grace is sufficient and His power is made perfect in my weakness. Rest on me Jesus.

Morgan