How Spiritual Unrest is a lot Like Diet Unrest
  
"For his anger endureth but a moment;
in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh
in the morning."
~ Psalm 30:5
Diet Struggles Can Reap
Great Joy!
Spiritual Unrest is one of the most troubling
situations in life. It's stressful, it lies in a Valley of Unsurety,
and when a person is experiencing such, it's virtually impossible
to concentrate on anything else going on in life. But when God gives
the answer, there is suddenly great joy to be found.
Struggling with your diet mirrors Spiritual
Unrest. While dieting, you may be filled with great joy and success
as you are accomplishing great strides in reaching your weight loss
goal. Then suddenly, something goes haywire. You find it extremely
difficult to remain true to your diet.
You're miserable; on one hand you want to
continue your diet and on the other hand, you just want it all to
go away.
The stress and bother of the situation suddenly outweighs
the benefits that you hope to receive. You find yourself completely
obsessed with thoughts of your diet and there's just no almond joy
- WAIT.....I mean, JOY - there is no JOY to be found.
When you reach this low point in your diet,
stick with your diet and become stronger and more committed than
ever to your plan.
It's generally at this point, if you remain steadfast,
you'll see a tremendous jolt to your scales. Think of what might
have been lost if the diet hadn't been tossed by the wayside!!
You may have - or known someone who has been
on a diet and just quit cold turkey. They were in the situation
described above, and just couldn't 'wait it out'. A couple of days
after going off the diet, you may have noticed that your weight
seemed to actually go down!
Keep in mind that when you are fixing to have
a notable drop in weight, you'll generally get depressed, or feel
intensely hungry. Simply reassure yourself that by sticking with
your plan, you'll experience great JOY right around the Diet Corner!
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