Re-reading my past blogs.....

Interesting how going back and re-reading my past blogs gives me a new perspective?!
Didn't I say I wasn't going to measure my success by what the number on the scale said, but rather the BMI- which is a better indicator of what's going on INSIDE
that isn't showing up on the OUTSIDE yet...??? Oh yeah, I forgot...
Someone needs to smack me upside the head and remind me of that... well, SOMEONE did... the Lord prompted me to go back and re-read my own words, and reminded me that I have lost some body fat, I am building muscle because I have increased the weights I am lifting on most of the machines, and my blood pressure is dropping...
so there is progress going on...and I've allowed discouragement to drag me down.
Check out this passage from The Message: Hebrews 12:1
"Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!"