AN EYE OPENING REFLECTION

While writing my post for Five Minute Friday on my other blog last night, some thoughts came to mind as I traveled down memory lane. 

The word prompt was Chocolate (click here if you want to read it).  

I haven't had chocolate in over 30 years now, but back in the day I was a real chocaholic. There was no such thing as a handful of M&M's or a few pieces of a giant Cadbury chocolate bar. It was the whole bag, or the whole bar.

My decision to give it up was made for a very heartfelt reason that meant everything to me, and because of that, it was an easy sacrifice to make. It has never felt like a hardship, and seeing it does not tempt me. So why then is it so hard for me to give up other things?

One thing, in particular--a nasty habit I would like to stop--has been an ongoing battle. Even though I know I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and that the same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead dwells in me, and even though I have prayed many prayers asking the Lord to help me stop, nothing has worked. 

I was about to give up my efforts, convincing myself that it wasn't really that bad of a habit, when the word prompt for this week's FMF challenge came along and triggered memories of my chocolate experience. It was a lightbulb moment the Lord used to remind me that if something is really, really important to us (as was what motivated me to give up chocolate) we can do it.