Seeking comfort?

How many of you have cried your sorrows away accompanied with a pint of ice-cream, a pack of cookies or any other variety of junk food?  Perhaps, you’ve sought comfort in other addictions. Whatever your weakness, we know that there’s only one way to find true comfort. 

Don’t you feel horrible when you scarf down a pack of cookies because you are angry, stressed or depressed?  Remember the feeling of emptiness and disgust that comes afterwards?  How did emotionally eating help your problem? It didn’t! In fact, chances are that it made it worse because now you are feeling down about yourself and your body, in addition, to the problem you had to begin with. 

 

Candace Cameron Bure said in her book, Reshaping It All, that “each time you let your passions rule your choice, you are letting them rule over you.” So how can we fight against these emotional impulses?  Psalm 121:2 says “my help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”

1. We need to recognize that we need the help of the Lord.  James 3:7 says “therefore submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.”
2. We need to submit our desires onto the Lord and allow him to help us overcome the temptations that come our way.
3. We need to understand the situations that are driving our impulses and accept that we need the refreshing of the Lord. “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst” (John 6:35).

 The next time you are stressed, run to the altar, not the fridge.  Find true comfort in the Lord, not the cookies.