Craving: a great or eager desire. I enjoyed a snippet on the radio recently
from Proverbs 31 Ministries (highly recommended for the ladies out there) that
talked about redirecting your cravings for food.
Do you feel like your cravings for foods (whether sweet or
salty or something totally off the wall) control you to a certain extent? Those temptations elicit a little battle
within, between what you are trying to accomplish (well controlled eating) and
the enjoyment of that something. This
battle usually consumes way too much of our time and brainpower. Plus, what usually wins? I have found it all too often to be the craving. We can take better control of our cravings
with some help from above.
Can there really be a connection between our cravings and
Christ?…you bet. I was encouraged by the
following radio podcast from Lysa TerKeurst that I decided I’m just going to
share in its entirety with you below (or follow this link to listen: http://proverbs31.org/blog/we-were-made-to-crave/).
“I believe God made us to crave so we’d always desire more
of Him.
God made us to consume food, but food was never supposed to
consume us. In the Bible, Jesus broke the vicious cycle of being consumed by
cravings when He quoted God’s words. We can do the same thing! When we feel
deprived and frustrated and consumed with wanting unhealthy choices, we can
rely on the words we read in the Bible to help us.
Jesus, without hesitation, quoted truth from the Bible when
He was tempted. Truth is powerful. The more we saturate our hearts with truth,
the more we’ll be able to resist temptation and direct our cravings where they
should be. To God and God alone.”
As in all things, we should follow Christ’s example. To conquer your food cravings while growing
in your relationship with Christ and walking more firmly in truth is something
special. Let’s make God our number one
desire, let scripture be our weapon of choice against temptation and watch our
craving battles fade.