Keeping the Faith…Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen…
This is a good scripture. Something I have been thinking about a lot lately.
Keeping the faith and trusting the truth, when it is hard to see. I heard an analogy once about a pilot in a cloud, flying without any outward signs of the direction, orientation or location of the plane…His only choice is to learn to stay the course. Rely on his instruments. Trust and believe…by faith.
Weight loss is similar…truth is, if we do the stuff…the weight will come off.
My lesson for this week from the research folk talks about “extreme thinking” and remaining “positive” in our thoughts.
There’s a battlefield between our ears…to silence the voices that tell us “to give up, stop trying, it doesn’t matter, it’s too hard, it isn’t working anyway…there’s no use, I’ll never get there…might as well not exercise, or go ahead and eat that….”
It is a battle to keep the faith when we are eating less, moving much more, finally loving exercise and eating right…AND nothing seems to be changing.
But there IS a change happening, it is a substance of things hoped for, an evidence of things not seen…it is internal, it is by faith.
Like the butterfly, within the crysalis, in the darkness, the unknowing, it has to wait and trust and have faith that there is a purpose for this death, and that change is coming…and it IS happening.
It takes a faith to lose this weight. When the scale knocks the wind out of your sails…or you see others just losing weight so quickly…it is hard to find the motivation to continue…
But remember. If you do the stuff…follow your course, keep your eye on the horizon, take your thoughts captive and walk by faith, you CAN and you WILL make it to your destination!
Thank you Jane for this perfect booster: )
Very encouraging read!! This should inspire many people to push on and not give up!!
ooooh how inspiring! i love that Bible verse
Okay thanks Chrisie. I believe I can fly. -Dee
and it is important to keep posative, faith is the posative in our lives, i am finding the more posative i look at alot of things the better i feel… God has been showing me how to believe in faith because here lately the challenges of my life have been great, and there use to be a time when i only leaned completely on faith, but now i am learning to go back to trusting in Him and the faith He gives us dailyh… thanks for the posative note…
“There is a battlefield between our ears”…. I loved that. That’s what it feels like for me on a daily basis. Loved your blog. You’re spot on.
Absolutely loved your blog Chrisie…love the butterfly pic
and the scricpture.
God is great!!! Chrisie you are great!!!
Without faith where would we be?
And you are so right….we just have to keep on doing the right things and we WILL see the results we are working so hard for
Wow LOL!! I need a spellcheck here at BuddySlim
Meant to type scripture…..not scricpture..LOL!! silly me!!!
I’ll tell you what. When all is said and done? I had better become a butterfly or I’m kickin’ butts and taking names.
Beautiful, I needed that for all the tough spots in my life, thank you.
