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| Lean Lent Day 16; For Dieters | |
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Day 16 Scripture: 2 Peter 3: 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. Application: “The scale is not budging. What’s the use? I knew I couldn’t do this.” Scale too slow for you or are you accusing God for being slow in His promise to rescue and deliver you? Perhaps He is waiting for you to come to repentance. Have you ever been so mad at the scale that you went and pigged out all day on some of your old time favorite stand-bye’s? We are told not to tempt God, but isn’t that what we are doing when we give up for even a day? We are telling Him that He can’t deliver what He has promised to do. I watched helplessly for four years as the rate of 20 pound gain a year piled on. I was helpless because I didn’t ask God what to do and to help me. I was looking at myself again as usual forgetting the fact that God didn’t have to act on my behalf until I repented. He was patient with me for 4 years as I trotted along my own path. Can’t you be patient for the year or so it might take to lose the weight? The Lord is not slow; it appears I am slow in catching on to His promises. Thank Him this day for His patience and ask Him to let you have the fruit of patience in your life, rather than instant gratification. Prayer: Lord God, thank You for Your patience. Much is to be learned through the way you deal with us. May we learn from our Savior who patiently awaited the cross, so like Him we may triumphantly say, “It is finished.” My Commitment Today: |
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