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Are You Going to Let Yourself Begin Again?
Posted in General, The Morning After Blog • 1 Comment
Posted on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Are you going to let yourself begin again?
I was just thinking about the number of times that I have set out to lose weight. I have actually done it a couple of time successfully. In high school I moved to San Francisco and after playing basketball for a few months, I was lookin good! (LOL) But then, I moved to another state and gained some weight. Close to prom time, I worked out and changed my eating. By prom, I was actually a size smaller than what I was working for. In college, when most people gain the freshman 15, I think I gained the freshman 45…what! Yep!
And so I joined the basketball team and through athletic commitment lost all of the extra weight. I gained it back my senior year. I lost a little before my wedding, gained some more after my first child and went back at it again. The last time I lost weight, it was almost 50 pounds. I had 3 children, a ministry and a plan, and I reached my goal. So now, 3 years and 1 more child later, I find myself back at it again… and the struggle is in the one thing that I had to do every time before… start over. I never looked at this until recently, that I have had to begin again so many times before and as long as I didn’t get frustrated, I could keep going and reach my goals. But I think now, I am just mentally tired of having to make the same goal all over again… after being there so many times before and yet being so far from it, it’s tempting to just think that maybe I am the size I should be.
This week I realized that since I don’t think this is true about my spiritual life, it definitely can’t be truth in my natural life…. and you know what, I don’t have a choice… the goal is worth reaching.
I started meditating on some scriptures last week that have begun to minister to my mindset and that have given me the endurance to NOT GIVE UP or GIVE IN!
No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. 1 Corinthian 9:27
I keep pursuing the goal in order to win the prize offered by God’s upward calling in the Messiah Yeshua.. Philipians 3:14
What I have been meditating on is that the same subjection that our flesh must go through in order to be spiritually prosperous, this is the same subjection that I must apply to the mindset of giving up. I have a prize to obtain and I must make my body my slave… I know that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.. now its my time to keep pursuing my goal and not give up.
There are some women at my church who have been working really hard in making working out a habit and a part of their lives… shout outs to Heather and Lisa, do it ladies!!!!
Maybe yours isn’t weight, maybe it’s going back to school, finding a job, raising your children, waiting on your husband, or even waiting on God to release you in ministry.. whatever it is, you must do the same thing… put the prize before you and no matter how many times you have fallen or stopped, or failed or waited, or messed up… you get my point; you have got to let yourself begin again. Let yourself experience the joy and liberty of starting over, without the pressure and weight of your past, no matter how successful it was… it will only hold you back. Forget the things that are behind you and reach for the goal you set in front of you… and run for it! In time, you will reap if you don’t faint! You are worth it!
Keymasha, I LOVE this! The weight issue is one that permeates the entire Black Christian community without ever going checked on a large scale. If you look at many of our prominent Christian leaders in the Black community, many are not healthy. Thanks for setting an example for that community in particular and beyond. It’s definitely something I have to be held accountable for.