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I feel the need to write this because I know a lot of things are said to us on a daily basis.  Things that may hurt us, shape us, or edify us.  Sometimes someone says something and you’re not able to “shake it off.”  How easy is it to “shake a comment off” that someone directed towards you?!  I found out today that it’s not that easy.  I have been struggling with what someone said to me about my weight since he said it to me.  I couldn’t understand why he was asking me the question at the time he was asking it and now that the moment is over; I’m still struggling a bit in my mind.  Yes, I have renounced it and yes I have quoted scripture, but are there sometimes when things that are said just hit us deeply?  I have had this happen to me before when I was younger and in high school and it did lead to a battle in my mind.  Why do the things people say to us bother us so much?  I know it has bothered me because I want to find out what was behind the question; if anything.  Why did he ask the question?  It may be nothing, but a battle begins in your mind and it is on a search to why the question, or statement was made.  I did at one time use drugs, so immediately that’s what the devil used against me.  He started messing with my mind.  I’m telling you…  the battle is in your mind a lot of the times!  The devil’s plan is to kill, steal and destroy and if he can do that through someone else; he absolutely will and he doesn’t care a thing about you. 

I am concerned about this because now I know what it feels like when someone says something to you about your weight.  My mom has been living through an eating disorder for 35 years and she became that way by one person’s comment in college (other factors also).  I can totally see how it all starts in your mind after the person says something.  A battle begins there that you yourself have to fight and sort out.  I don’t like the media these days, the TV, the internet, magazines, etc.  They display girls in a “different light” most of the times.  I dislike that people are lied to through pictures and advertisements.  I dislike that young girls look up to the people that are being displayed on TV and ad’s.  You combine the media, advertisements, internet and such with a comment from someone and….BAM…you have got things going on in your mind that create you to ask questions about yourself and most of the time may bring confusion. 

It is so important to protect your mind and put on that Armor of God every morning.  That guy that asked me a question about my weight; probably didn’t even mean anything by it because before he asked he said, “Don’t take this personally,”  or something to that effect.  Do you see how our minds can take it out of proportion though?  I surely can now.  Guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.  Put on that Armor every morning.  The devil is relentless and he is there to attack you in any way, shape, or form.

Remember Psalm 91