Tell it to Move

Weight: 310.4


Yeah, so I took a few days off...big woop. I did that from my eating habits and things too, my backside is STILL hurting. You know, from falling off the wagon.

Look, I have realized that the time for excuses needs to be over. I have made excuses for a lot of things for a long time and I need to get over it. Face it, sometimes eating right can get laborious. Especially when you are just trying to change our eating patterns. Pizza is delicious, cookies are like Pringles (you can't have just one), sometimes eating out is soo much easier than cooking, and sometimes you just want some pancakes!

I think I dealt with all of those the past week. Hey, it happens.

But, I have gotten back into my C25K training and, gasp, even signed up to take part in a 5K. Well, I figure that since it cost money I would feel bad for not doing it. I even told people about it so now I have some accountability. So I guess my training starts now. I have confidence that I will definitely be able to finish, I mean I have hiked farther than 3.1 miles. I have never jogged/ran that far, but we will see how it goes.

Also I have been feeling like garbage, so thirsty I could hardly stand it. So I did some research. According to my weight, I should be drinking like, over a gallon of water a day. Sooo....I got me some gallon jugs and I marked them with times so I can be sure to get in at least a gallon a day. I pee 800,000 times, but a few days in and I already feel a little better.

See when you are making a change in your life, be that eating better or learning to trust God for things there will come times when things get in your way. When worry sets in, when Ben & Jerry's is on sale B1G1, when what may be a molehill becomes a mountain to you. I heard a song on the radio the last two days, a Christian song, that says, "This is only a mountain, you don't have to go around it, tell it move, it'll move, tell it to fall, it'll fall.." or something like that. It's a lovely song. That got me to thinking, you know the Lord tells us that if we have faith even the size of a mustard seed (which is VERY small) then we have faith enough to make the mountains move.

But we don't believe that. We think that miracles are things of the Bible. Now healing doesn't really count because we don't do that directly. We pray to God and God handles the healing if it is in his will. I'm not sure that I believe that anyone can be healed if it isn't in His will for them to be. Why don't we still believe that we can move mountains?

Why don't we believe that we can tell ourselves that we don't need that candy bar or that we don't need to eat again at 11PM. Food can be your mountain. I guess in a way it's mine. It's that one thing that has always gotten in my way because I turned to food, and I love food. I love good food, cooking it, eating it. There's nothing wrong with that, but you have to know when it becomes a hindrance for you, when it becomes a mountain and not a bear claw.

So I challenge you what I challenge myself. Tell it to move.

I believe that the Devil can and will use ANYTHING to destroy you if he chooses to. I believe that he will put desires or fears or thoughts in your way. He can make anything a mountain to you. He can make food or alcohol or internet games or plastic surgery...anything, anything. So when we get those mountains in our way, why don't we just tell them to move! Say, "Get behind me devil!" "Move mountain!"

Now I know, I know that is easier said than done. I mean if it was easy would I be big as a house? Umm, no. But you can try, and maybe your faith will move a pebble one day, a stone the next, a boulder the next.

If you have a mountain in front of you today, whether it is addiction to drugs or food or whatever, if it is facing unemployment or divorce or loneliness; tell it to move. Maybe you will have to say it two times or ten times or ten thousand times, but try it. I will, and lets just see how many mountains we can move.