Warmest regards my friend!
I want to share with you a quick but mighty teaching and how it plays into recovery from food and body issues
The Spirit of Truth ~ by Art Katz ~
“To love truth is to desire the guileless transparency of Jesus more than anything else. It needs to be a very powerful desire, because along with that transparency comes some things we may very strongly want to escape and refuse. Receiving a love for truth and the Spirit who is truth means facing the prospect of life without recourse to exaggeration or white lies or flattery that I have grown accustomed to employ in order to enlarge or protect myself. It means playing no roles and assuming no poses.
That frankly frightens most of us. The Spirit of Truth is going to lead us into all truth, even the parts that may humiliate us before men and leave us spiritually uncertain and perplexed and shatter our false images of ourselves, others, and ultimately God Himself. That might not be what we were hoping for. We were looking for something a little more quiet and much less costly. Receiving the love of truth and the Spirit who leads us to all truth inevitably means suffering, because disillusionment, uncertainty, and humility are all forms of suffering. And suffering is what I desperately want to avoid. I will avoid it at all costs, even at the cost of truth itself; unless I love truth even more than I fear it. It is not ignorance that keeps us from becoming true, it is cowardice.”
Is there somewhere in your soul that you know the truth about the “why” (protective nature) of what binging, restricting, lack of slowing down , etc and you still believe that the Lord won’t heal it?
Maybe this is all brand new, the idea of food freedom outside of the narrative of lose weight to be healthy or fit in because of the mind control programming from childhood that a bigger body is wrong therefore you are wrong. And maybe it’s disorienting and still….. the Spirit doesn’t lie.
The truth is in regards to food is we all have biological needs to get met, and not meeting them to try to get a body that will get you more world based accolades will only suppress the Spirit.
The truth is that if you’re using food to hide from yourself or from being hurt, I get it, but in now time I pray you’re no longer in that situation that’s so unsafe you need to dissociate with food or a body that hides you somehow.
The truth is sanctification and mind renewal are beautiful, hard, exciting, patience bending …. And life will become more than you can ever hope or imagine.
Thanks for reading and taking this to the Lord.
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Warmly,
Tracy and team