Sugar Fast Day 2
I have a confession. This is the third go round at the 40 day sugar fast. I started it in August 2022 and lasted about three weeks. I was all in. I purged my cupboards of nasty BAD sugar. I researched healthy snacks with less sugar. I found Monk Fruit for my tea! This plus the Zero Sugar yogurt I found were the highlights of my diet change. It was great. I was feeling less tired, in better spirits and my clothes fit more loosely. But then came my birthday…
Now I had told myself when I started this fast that I was going to go until my birthday, eat cake that week, and get right back to the fast. Didn’t happen. I’m happy to say that I didn’t resume to my previous “sugar everyday” lifestyle, but neither was I returning to “no bad sugar for weeks at a time”. So, here I am again, starting all over. The amusing thing about the timing of my restart is I will have completed 40 days just in time for Halloween candy!!!!!!
If you find honey, eat only what you need;
otherwise, you’ll get sick from it and vomit. (Proverbs 25:16)
This is the nugget of truth I find myself meditating on today. It seems like a “DUH” statement doesn’t it? Don’t I already know that too much of something (in my case sugar) will make me sick? I have another confession…on my worse days I would gulp down a chocolate mocha even when I didn’t really want one. I wanted to want it. I could taste that warm chocolate, coffee, whipped cream concoction and feel it going down my throat. It was bliss. So I would drink one anyway only to be kicking myself later for having done so.
Apparently, then, even if the wisdom of Solomon is something I already know, today I need to meditate on this truth.
If you find honey, eat only what you need;
otherwise, you’ll get sick from it and vomit. (Proverbs 25:16)
2024 Update
Today I realize just how far I have turned from God in the last 6 months. Writing a book and building a business have consumed most of my time and my thoughts. When I have a goal or project I can have pretty good tunnel vision and it is easy to focus on my efforts and abilities. I forget that apart from God’s power working through me, I can’t do anything. Result–road blocks and frustrations.
(John 15:5 ESV)
What about you? Are you feeling far from God today? Have you turned to sugar (or other things) to fill your needs instead of turning to Jesus?