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Dearly beloveds, I saw yet other television shows on various ways the medical community was trying to deal with helping overweight persons. One program showed a medical device that would literally cause the fat in certain portions of the body to be heated up, and somehow dissipated. Another showed a medical device that would freeze the fat, and sorry, I just fell asleep at that point. So holy brethren we see that problems with weight affect the righteous and the unrighteous. My hope, dear, dear children of light is that any saint(G40 hagios) suffering in this way would refrain from self ridicule, and self condemnation, which will just compound the problem and continue to ensure failure to gain the control over the appetite that they greatly desire. Curiously some saints (G40 hagios) confuse doing this with repentance. Repentance has nothing to do with self condemnation, or self ridicule at all.

Here we must get our understanding of what this problem represents from a biblical view, when we  find ourselves tempted again and again engaging in a pattern of behaviors, or even thoughts, that we come to know by experience of the consequences are detrimental to us, and ultimately displeasing to our God.

 ^{1Co 10:13} There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. See also James 1:3-7.

We can easily see from our Lord Jesus' word that temptations, no matter how horrible, dire, hard to deal with that affect   people can be seen as "common to man".  Unlike the ungodly, God's people have a sure source of help, that can never lie nor deceive. God Himself is available to help us even in this area, for He is ALWAYS Faithful and True. Until our Lord returns, we all will be dealing with some issue or sin, but through our Lord we find ourselves overcoming more and more. We find ourselves, by the grace of God being given the patience we need to promptly face temptation, with the correct spiritual attitude, assurance and confidence, that He never leaves us to fight our battles alone, He is always in us, and is our victory.

Then again He gives us hope that He will keep you from going overboard in your situation, even telling you in His word what you shall gain through His help in James 1:3-7. Even if we find the situation to be very stressful, our Lord even tells us what attitude we must have that will bring glory to Him and be very beneficial to us.

Some may ponder what is our part in this: first of all it is to trust and obey God out of love always, and be prayerful.  Secondly we can take advantage in the natural of any relevant information about the problem and put it to use consistently. Some may ponder if they should employ surgical means of dealing with the problem. The saint that employs such means is neither less nor more holy than any other saint.

My point here, children of light is that through our Lord, we can get at the root of problems, so that we do not simply "fix" one problem and than go on to develop the same problem in a different area. Beloveds it goes without saying, that Jesus is the reason for how we live out our lives, to please Him and not ourselves. Oh, I am not saying we should never have pleasure for ourselves, but I am saying true pleasure, delight, and joy is found truly abundantly in pleasing Him, who loves us and wants better for us than we want for ourselves. Let us stop here for now, dear ones.

love

serola