In His Image - A Free Course

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Day 2 - Part 1

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Friend, let us discuss why we give into sinful eating practices (starving, binging, throwing up, etc). When we discover the answer to this question, we learn how to break the sinful habit. The Bible has the answer for us, as we will see throughout the remainder of the course, but let us state the answers briefly here:

One of the reasons we binge or starve is because the human heart craves fullness and satisfaction.

There are, of course, many other reasons why we wish to binge, purge, or refuse to eat, such as the desire for comfort, to "medicate" pain, to help with loneliness and boredom, to feel "in control," or just plain laziness. But, for this lesson, we will focus on the heart's desire for fullness and satisfaction.

Perhaps you have found, as I (Kim) did, that you often turn to food or some magic number on the scale for fulfillment and/or satisfaction. Yet, deep down, we must admit that we are not truly satisfied, nor are we really "full" even, after a binge.

Ecclesiastes 6:7 states,

This verse tells us that we may keep stuffing food in our bellies beyond reason, but it will never, ultimately, satisfy us. Or we could reach that magic number on the scale, but the satisfaction is short lived: we think we must lose more.

Micah 6:14 states it clearly:

Micah is ...

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