To spotlight
the 2017 National Eating Disorder Awareness Week (February 26th- March 4th,
2017), let’s take a look at the power of wishes. They can, all too often,
become something toxic, if left unchecked.
We beginning
with the beginning, the start of the wishing process...
When we were
children, what do we wish we could be?
“I wish I could be...”
“For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to
do, that I do not practice: but what I hate, that I do.”
The Apostle Paul in Romans 7:15
It’s
important to acknowledge the natural, healthy desires to have significance;
this is at the core of every person.
“Thou hast given him his heart's
desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.”
Psalms 21:2
However, we
need to be careful to distinguish between those desires and the more harmful
idolatry and coveting which can easily become dominant in our lives and
choices.
“Little
children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.”
1 John 5:21
“Mortify
therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness,
inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”
Colossians
3:5
Now we are
extremely vulnerable to disorder.
“For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every
evil thing are there.”
James 3:16
Priorities
and desires are difficult to separate; one affects the other.
Therefore,
how important it is to, from the start, focus on the Divine, asking for help,
wisdom and direction for our self-concepts, our ambitions and our world view.
“If any of you lacks wisdom, you
should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will
be given to you.”
James 1:5
“Delight thyself also in the LORD:
and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”
Psalms 37:4
“Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the
way, walk in it, whenever you turn to the right hand, and whenever turn to the
left.’”
Isaiah 30:21
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go:
I will guide you with My eye.”
Psalm 32:8
It is
possible; it is doable. Often, the biggest challenge is just to start the
refocus. Start right now!
Copyright © 2017 by Sheryle Cruse
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