Isaiah 26:3 "Thou
wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he
trusteth in thee."
When we’re dieting, it’s
easy to keep focused on food—what we can eat, when we’ll eat next, what is
still left on our daily food portion, and even nostalgia over what we no longer
include in our diets. The trouble is, for those of us with weight problems,
thinking about food makes us want to eat, whether or not we are hungry.
But God has given us a way
to escape this trap. We can keep our minds on the Lord and He will give us
perfect peace.
We already have our food
lists and have planned our meals, and we don’t have to think about food all the
time. So we can keep our minds on the Lord by repeating to ourselves scripture
we have already memorized, by memorizing new scriptures, by quizzing ourselves
on what reference goes with what verses we are familiar with, by singing hymns
and other spiritual songs to ourselves, even by changing the point of view of
the hymns we know (changing Thee to Lord or changing our to mine)—whatever it
takes for us to keep our minds on God.
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