When It Finally Clicks

Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance. Isaiah 55:2 (New King James Version)

Over the past number of decades I have sought ways to lose weight. While I could get the pounds off initially, my problem was always that my poor eating habits and wrong relationship to food had never been permanently altered. At best, I would modify my behavior only to relapse into the very things that were detrimental to my physical well being. The bottom line was that the programs and plans never clicked and therefore the changes never lasted. The past few months have been a different story for me. I now take in food for the nutritional value rather than the filling of emotional voids. My choices are different as are the amounts. When I shared this with my weight loss instructor she looked at me and said, “It is finally clicking!” Those were profound words for me and had spiritual significance.

God quickly helped me to draw the parallel between what I was doing in the physical realm with what I needed to do in the spiritual realm. I can easily take in the truths of His Word and just as easily express those truths but a text message from a friend yesterday pinpointed the necessity for those truths to start clicking. When I confided to her that I was battling condemning thoughts she simply said, “Pam, in love I say to you, you can choose. You have all the head knowledge. Choose as an act of your will to believe.” She was urging me to apply the truths I have been taking in. Being a doer of the Word and not simply a hearer. We both could tell it was time for me to live out of the truths God has been graciously showing me.

This morning, God is reminding me to seek my satisfaction and delight in Him. My constant looking in all the wrong places keeps ending in empty results and God is inviting me to let what He is teaching me click! Taking my thoughts captive, setting my affections on Him, turning to Him for my needs of approval, significance, and direction, seeking Him, listening to Him. With each struggle I am seeing what has clicked and what has not.

I must allow what is in my head to extend to the farthest fiber of my being. His Spirit and His Word are in me to assist me in the process of application. The transformation will come from Him but the cooperation is my responsibility. He is calling me to trust, yield, and obey as I continue in the things I have learned and am learning.

Father, I want the change that only comes from living in connection with You and heeding what You tell me. Help it to finally click! Amen.

Open the Eyes of My Heart Lord
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He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food. Job 36:16