Why is self control such a big issue for me? I know I'm not alone, but if I'm worried or stressed or depressed or upset...I either eat or spend money that should be used for bills on other things (usually not myself--but irregardless, it should be for bills). Then, I'm short and even more stressed out. And, if I spend it eating out or buying snacks...I get more depressed because I gain weight. And, when I'm doing it there's a voice inside going "stop"---but then it's as if it's drown out and there's not a sound in the world. Just static...like a tv. Or nothing at all.
I pray and try and read and keep telling myself I'll gain some willpower or self control, but it never happens. Is it the co-dependent in me or the advesary just hitting me where I'm absolutely the weakest and bound to fail? Is anyone else like me?
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This verse comes to mind sis: 1 Thess 5:8
...let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
I can't imagine a person who doesn't struggle with this from time to time. Last night it was me, for some reason I went on a snacking binge - it was awful, couldn't stop.
What I usually try to do is pray about it, focus on God and what he would want me to do, or redirect my thinking some how.
I think that God is honored when we do show self-control - in our eating, our spending, with our words and our thoughts. It's a work in progress!
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