June is candy month.
It
started me thinking. Typically, the “candy holidays” are geared more toward
autumn and winter: Christmas, Valentine’s Day and, of course, Halloween. So, no
one really thinks candy when they think the summer season, right?
I remember my college days when, of the many wacky
disordered eating patterns and crash diets, I went on a “candy diet.” Nothing
but candy, day in, day out, for a period of time. I’m surprised every tooth in
my head did not rot and fall out. Grace of God.
And then I hit a point in my life/recovery in which sugar
was taboo. Keep that demonic white stuff away from me! To say I was paranoid
was an understatement! I felt it would “do me in” if I had the tiniest trace of
it.
Years later, I’m more at peace with the candy situation.
It’s not been an easy road, but scripture has helped me tremendously. It’s the
cliché moderation stuff. You know…
“All
things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful
for me, but all things edify not.”
1 Corinthians 10:23
“All
things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are
lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”
I know candy is not “health food.” Vitamins and minerals
aren’t found in the stuff. But I also know that one gram of sugar is not going
to kill me either. And I know God wants to bless me; He wants me to be healthy.
“…I am come that they might have life,
and that they might have it more abundantly.”’
John 10:10
That does not require perfection. So, even if/when I believe
I’ve “blown it,” there is no condemnation:
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in
Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
Romans 8:1
There is grace, no matter what. I think of that now whenever
I see candy.
“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not
under the law, but under grace.”
Romans 6:14
So, happy
June, happy candy month!
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