Hello. My name is Kathy and I am addicted to sugar. I LOVE sweet things, especially chocolate. This chocoholic part of me is nothing new. But recently I have begun to notice that my love of sugar is not my friend.
For most of my life I have been blessed with a metabolism that allowed me to eat just about anything I wanted without weight gain or increased inches around my middle. But, I fear, those days are over. I have been more and more unsettled in my spirit in recent months by my addiction to all things sweet.
About a month ago I began praying that God would give me the resources to help me kick this addiction. I prayed for books by fellow Christians who understood the struggle and went about combating it from a Biblical perspective. God is good and he led me to several books and devotionals that I will be reading during the next 40 days as I travel towards freedom from sugar addiction!
This is my journey….
DAY 1—
In her book, The 40 Day Sugar Fast, Wendy Speake challenged me to ask these questions:
- What am I running to when I am sad?
- What am I running to when I am happy and want to celebrate?
- What am I running to when I want to fill the empty place in my heart, the ache of discontentment, boredom, and numb those feelings of insignificance?
I have begun to see that the answer to all of these questions is SUGAR.
As a born-again child of God I don’t want my answer to be anything except GOD. When I am sad I want to run to Him who is my comforter. When I am happy and feeling celebratory I want to run to the One who has given me the gift of eternal life, who has called me to His purposes and the One who satisfies my deepest desires. I want to run to the ONLY One who gives me significance in this world and the only One who is capable of filling the emptiness in my soul.
Instead of running to the sweet taste of sugar, I want to run towards the sweet taste of God.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
How happy is the man who takes refuge in Him! (Psalm 34:8, HCSB)