Why Do I DO What I DON'T Want to Do?

I came across this picture today and boy did it resonate with me.  Do you ever feel like the food is just waiting to trap you?  You try so hard to “be good”.  But it feels like they are always waiting there, calling your name.  You are so drawn to it like the mouse is to the peanut butter or cheese on the mouse trap. 

I just want to reassure you that food does not have to have that power over you anymore.  That food can become a non-issue.  You can actually take back your power and not turn it over to food or your emotions which often drives the eating. 

When you begin to understand the attachments you have wrongly assigned to food and other people, places or things for that matter you begin to take back your power.  You also begin to give the appropriate attachments/jobs/power to the correct thing.  For an example, during a Theophostic experience I realized that I had assigned ice cream the job of comforter for my childhood loneliness.  I was a latch key kid but on top of that my mom was a single, working mother of kids that had been raised up to that point in an alcoholic and chaotic home.  Getting home in the afternoons and having time to isolate was great on one hand but then the loneliness and sadness of my reality would set in.  When Jesus recaptured that memory and should me where I had gone to ice cream to meet my need for comfort in my loneliness and sadness my craving for ice cream disappeared.  It has been a long time.  Ice cream no longer has the power of “got to have it now”.  If you have never had to get dressed to go get food or had to go to multiple stores so no one realized how much you were eating this may not make sense to you.   But Jesus coming back to that hurt and healing the wound completely gave me my power back and made me realize that He is my comforter.  I am human I still have loneliness; I am to take it to Him.  He will meet all my needs. 

If you are not an emotional eater that sounds insane but for those that are you understand completely.  I just want you to know you can walk in freedom.  You no longer have to feel like the person in the picture, you are not trapped!

Blessings ~ Tammy