Change is Difficult

     Day two of my new life and I am already posting about how difficult it is. Lol. It's the truth, though, and the truth shall set you free, right? I'm not going to pretend that I do not crave fast food, and other things that will "help" me make life easier, for a short time. I think that is the most luring thing about fast food, isn't it? It's easy and quick, and there's no clean up. For me that is so inciting because I usually, at any given time, have a bad headache so to be able to drive 5 mins and lunch/dinner is over...that sounds amazing. Not truly helpful though, is it? In life, everyone is presented with two choices: The easy way or the hard way. 

In Mathew 7:13-14 Jesus said it like this,
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

     Why do only few find the gate that leads to life? Nobody wants the road that leads to death. The problem is, however, that no one enjoys taking the road less traveled. Now Jesus was talking spiritually and about our eternity. However, like most things in the bible, we can directly correlate this verse to other areas in our life as well. No one enjoys taking the road that is much more difficult. The wide road is easy and doesn't really have many challenges. The reality is, that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. It requires discipline, hard work, and courage to keep going when things get really hard. 
Unfortunately, being disciplined and working hard is almost unheard of in this world we live in. We expect too much and ask that it is delivered to us promptly. Sad, isn't it? but that's our reality.

     My goal in this journey is to be healthy and to take my problems to God instead of food. This is not only going to require taking the road less traveled, it's also going to require a lot of perseverance. Perseverance to keep going even though this goal seems unattainable. 

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV
But I discipline my body and keep it under control,lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

In Greek it says, " I pummel my body and make it a slave". How often do we let our body's control our actions? For me, it happens all too often. I have a long hard road ahead of me, and it may take longer to reach that goal if we follow the "hard" way, but it will be well worth it.