The Broken Beautiful Journey

by | May 22, 2017 | #KickWeight, Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration

I am broken. You are broken. We are all broken. We are humans. We are a fallen race, but we have a Savior who longs to have us close by His side. He can make us one of the Broken Beautiful if we simply choose to take the journey with Him.

The Answer

We probably all resonate with Paul’s comments. “I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.”1 It’s why we feel we are broken and will never be anything close to beautiful.

Further in that chapter, he says, “What a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.”2

For years I’d read those verses and believe Jesus was the answer to my dilemma of overeating and extreme weight gain. As a Christian, though, it eluded me as to how to apply the things I already knew to make the answer work in my life.

I’m Unfixable

I really wanted that answer to guide me and yet, when Jesus would show me what to do, I was afraid to give up my pacifier, my comfort foods, my foods made with sugar, my high carbohydrate anesthetizers of any pain or heartache.

I wanted to lose weight and I would lose weight only to gain it all back plus more. I couldn’t figure out how I was missing it and not allowing the power of God to work in this one huge area of my life.

[Tweet “Could it be that I was so broken, I was unfixable?”]

What I learned on my journey to losing over 260 pounds is not easy to explain in a few sentences. That’s why I’ve written three books about it, with a fourth coming out soon. All parts of me had to be involved in the process. It wasn’t just physical.

Even Jesus Can’t Fix Me

Understanding what was going on in the emotional and mental parts of me was integral to determining the spiritual misbeliefs I had and eradicating them.

I knew that Jesus was the answer, but I felt even He couldn’t rescue me from the brokenness I had brought into my own life. After all, I was the one shoving the food into my mouth!

Recreated

I felt that I caused the brokenness so I had to fix it by myself.  Self-effort alone never works. It took the power of God working along with a coach and a group to help put me back together again. But unlike Humpty Dumpty, I was made new.3

I was recreated into the design the Master always had in mind for me. My experience is the reason I lead similar groups. The next section of my Christian weight loss coaching class, #KickWeight, opened May 22 with the introductory video.

There is still time to register and I want you in the group, no matter what level of issue you have. Losing weight is just the tip of the iceberg. This is a total person problem. We approach it from the standpoint of total transformation.

God and His Truth

What’s the program based on? God and His truth. There are things we THINK we believe, but they aren’t operating in our lives, especially where following God our physical health is concerned. This is mainly because somewhere along the way we have been sidetracked.

We have to begin again by rebuilding from the foundation up. You aren’t broken. You are beautiful in God’s sight. He can and will show you how to rediscover the beauty that comes out of being broken and spilled out for His sake.

Take my hand and I will help lead you back to discover that the Answer really is Jesus. The group is open until midnight, May 30. Join now. Go HERE.

We are the Broken Beautiful and we are on a journey together.

I’ll see you in the group.

P.S. You can register with just a credit card. Simply choose register today, then go ahead and choose to pay by PayPal. On the next screen you have an open that says Create an Account. Choose that. On the next screen you can choose to create a PayPal account or pay by credit card. Start HERE.

1 Romans 7:19 NLT

2 Romans 7:24-25 NLT

3 2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT