Over Eating

 My uncle told me a while ago, people eat in place of love or in defense of love. His wife was always over weight, but he stayed with her anyways and still loved her. I always loved that about him. 

To eat in place of love is to eat your feelings. You are stressed out so you use food like a drug to feel better. You need a hug, but you eat a cookie instead. 

To eat in defense of love is to get fat to ensure no one will love you. Maybe you feel uncomfortable being loved. Maybe you hate the opposite sex staring at you. You want your mate to reject you, so you get fat to ensure they will. Maybe physical contact is awkward for you. Maybe your mate pursues you too much. You want them to want you less, so you get fat. 

A friend in college said she always wondered why the fall of man happened via eating. What did that show? Eating can lead us into great sin perhaps? 

I always have had a hard time respecting pastors who are very large. My thinking has been, if they have no self control with food, then do they have any self control? If they have no self control, how can anyone say they are actually Christian? 😲

A basic sign a person is a Christian is their ability to have self control. You can say no to sin. It is possible. The Holy Spirit gives any believer the ability to have self control and to sin less. If you cannot say no to sin, even the sin of over eating, you can't say you have the Holy Spirit in you. 

"Test yourself to see if you are in the faith," Paul said. 

I hope you all will try to have more self control in all areas of your life. You can do it. Just believe you can and then you can. 😀