One Step At A Time

Well, it seems as though my sister wins the prize for giving me inspirational words each day to get through this shake diet (it's really hard - I'm SO hungry and cranky!) She left a phrase from a song in the comments on my last post - "One step at a time. I'm climbing my mountain, one step at a time." This is a song we sang as children from the "record" Psalty's Kids Praise - Camping Adventure. I remember singing this song when I would walk from my house to my friend, Tracy's house when we lived in Calgary - I was about 10 years old. Her house was about a 10 minute walk, but it was all uphill, and steep. I would sing this song as I walked there and it really did help - maybe because it passed the time along, or maybe, just maybe, it was God giving me the strength to take each step!

I'm so thankful that God gives us songs and scripture to rely on in difficult times. And in times of joy, there are amazing songs of praise we can sing to Him. As the children and I were doing devotions tonight, we went over their memory verses from the past few months. One of them is Romans 5:8 "But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." It reminded me that I have sinned - I did not take care of the temple God gave me, my body. And right now I have to go through some hard times to make my body right again. The cool part though, is that even though I did mess up all these years in mistreating my body, Jesus Christ has taken care of my punishment. Drinking a few shakes a day is nothing compared to the punishment He endured. Thank you Jesus for paying my debt!

Well, here is the song my sister made reference to. I hope you are encouraged by it!