There is a spiritual principle at work here (unfortunately for me):
Luke 11.24-26:
"When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first." (NIV)
When we battle our own bad habits and tendencies, the first challenge is making a change to start with. The second challenge is maintaining those habits over the long haul.
Haven't you noticed that after experiencing victory in an area that it all-of-the-sudden seems so much harder to keep that victory up!
In my battle with food (and OH LAWD YES it is a battle). Things have been ten times harder now that I'm trying to continue to live out the habits that have gotten me this far. It's so temping to relax because of all the hard work put in before. The fact is that my previous efforts won't hold me. I must continue to do what I did before in order to get the same results. I actually, having lost a few pounds, I've got to increase my efforts to keep moving in the right direction.
So I'm admittedly fighting some demons, and I do believe that the opposition has been stacked against me to guarantee my failure. Thank God that:
I John 4:4
...greater is He that is in (me), than he that is in the world. (KVJ)
I've changed my weight loss ticker, yet again. I'm back down...close to where I was before vacation. Fighting my way back has been monstrous as I made more than a few decisions regarding food that I wasn't proud of. Maybe I'll confess more about it later... Hmmmmm....
....let me lose a few more pounds first :)
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