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Hey girls
What does comfort mean to you? Is it watching movies on a rainy day, laying underneath a fuzzy warm blanket when it is cold outside or having a games night with family. To me comfort means spending quality time with friends and family laughing together, cold winter days where I can curl up under a blanket and the warm summer days where I can feel the fresh coldness on my skin after taking a swim.
Comfort became the flame of the Holy Spirit burning inside of me
Comfort received a new definition in my vocabulary today. It became the flame of the Holy Spirit burning inside of me, refining my heart up to the point where I am almost rid of the impurities. These impurities caused me to wander from God's goodness towards sin.
Because in the midst of this overeating journey, I found myself being refined by the Refiner, being drawn close and being separated from my sin and shame.
Have you ever seen how gold is refined? It is heated under extreme conditions in order for the pure gold to be separated from impurities. I believe that is how we are spiritually tested as well. We get pressurized in order to be separated from the impurities in our hearts. How can something that sounds so uncomfortable be the definition of comfort? Because in the midst of this overeating journey, I found myself being refined by the Refiner, being drawn close and being separated from my sin and shame. I experienced God’s character of steadfastness. I got to experience that I no longer have a liability towards the sin of my past because Jesus paid for it on the cross with His blood.
Today I had to make the decision to break free from my previous label of ‘the girl with an eating disorder’ and press forward towards the promise God has for me: renewed, freed, restored. (Phil 3:13).
Being in the promised land (complete freedom from overeating in every aspect), does not mean temptation will not strike or fleshly desires will not burn hot. It simply means that I am going to have to stand guarded at the city gates, not allowing any foreign-god-worshipping-sojourners into this promised land.
The best thing of this promised land is that I am not alone in my little town of overeating. I have a community of recovered, sanctified, restored brothers and sisters here.
Today, I want to urge every woman struggling with any kind of addiction, to tell someone you trust about your addiction.
I pray that doors will be opened and freedom will be gained when addictions are brought into the light.
Lots of love
Inge xx
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