Finishing Well

Ok ladies....as we are coming to the end of our Biggest Loser showdown - how will you finish? Will you pursue the goal all the way to the finish line? Will you make one final push to get the most you can out of this competition? Will you give it all you got and leave it all on the field????

Ok...enough with all the cliches...

So, how are you doing? Have you tasted victory in all of this? Are you meeting goals and feeling better about yourself? Or, have you done what you have always done in the past - give half effort and get less than half the results you hoped for? You see, I can say that because I have been there! I am one that would start a diet every Monday and by Tuesday afternoon, I have broken it! Then, who really starts a diet on Wednesday - NO ONE! So, I have to wait until Monday to diet again, so I better eat what I want to through the weekend before I have to deprive myself! Sound familiar?

How about this -

I determine I will DEFINITELY have my quiet time everyday this week! I am going to be serious about it this time! I am going to have a prayer time, keep a journal and I am going to do better! By Tuesday or Wednesday then I find that my kids wake up early or work gets too hectic or ball schedules interfere....you fill in the blank!

What about this -

I am going to be FAITHFUL to Church! I really am! I am going to start going to Sunday school faithfully, I will be at Church Sunday AM, PM and even Wednesday night! Hey - I might even join the choir! They will be so sick of seeing me - they will have to throw me out to turn the lights off! Until the second week...then, "hey, I can't help it if I have to work!" and then "company came into town and we just couldn't make all of them get up and get there on time" then, it turns into "well, it is the end of the school year and we have so much going on" then, before long it is "didn't you see what was on tv Wednesday night - it was the season finale of biggest loser!" :)

What I am trying to say is that so many times in our lives, we sin in categories - rather than specifics! Let's stop calling sins by our pet names and giving them "reasons" which are our attempt to justify them! Ladies, let's be real....let's call it what it is!

Lack of Discipline, lack of desire and passion, lack of self-control, selfishness, idol worship, etc....

Want me to go on? I don't really want to either! Ouch...suddenly, putting a real name to what I do costs me something - it hurts to admit that my root beer float at Sonic last night was lack of self control and lack of discipline in my life! Yuck...it stinks to have to admit that my lack of passion for God and my own pride kept me from praying about that decision I made today and made me think I could do it my way(and by the way, it always comes back to bite me when I don't do it His way!)....

So - again, I ask....how will you finish? We have a couple more weeks to push through and do our best....will you? Have you given up? Have you allowed the enemy to convince you that this journey was only about the scales and since yours haven't moved the way you thought they should - your a failure? Have you decided that you just don't care (but it eats you up that it hasn't "worked" for you?)? Ladies, don't give in! Do not forget that we are not after some magical number on a scale to make us suddenly "perfect"! Life is more than that! How does a number on a scale give Glory to God? No, we are out to be our best - we are out to show self-control, to exercise discipline in our lives (because it WILL spread to other areas of our life as well), to honor God by taking care of what He has entrusted to us, and to glorify Him with the use of our time and energy! So....call it what it really is and get rid of it! And, for those of you truly tied and bound by schedules and work and demands (I know where you are at when you are truly strapped), then hang in there - find time to eat right and, when you can, make time for the walk instead of watching TV or for getting the rest you need instead of being on facebook! But stay with it! Do not fall out now ladies! We are almost there!