Tenacity for the long haul

Eating is something we must do daily. It's not like alcohol or drugs, where you can eliminate them from your life altogether, and be better for it. Not only do we need to eat, but God created taste buds on our tongues for a reason. We were meant to enjoy food! For so many of us, eating has become a curse. A giant blotch on the linen of our lives. The goal of Truly Fed, and the message of my book, is that freedom is the pursuit, not perfection in dieting. Dieting is a carnal way of fighting a spiritual battle. It doesn't work for the long haul. In his classic work titled My Utmost for His Highest Oswald Chambers defines tenacity as "The absolute certainty that what we hope for will transpire." When we believe that we can live and function differently with food, something begins to happen within us. We allow the power and cleansing of God to scrub this area of our lives for His good, and our own good. It's a scrubbing that changes who we are...