Morning comes too soon!

So this morning, I woke up about 4 a.m., which seems to have been the norm since I've been home, and there were 2 things impressed on me. (Apparently, my mind works in multiples).

The first was to continue to loose weight and put on muscle. I'll admit, that sounds very strange to hear me say that, because I've been fat for...well, too long to count. I just didnt want change bad enough to do anything about it. Well, we "crossed the big pond" in early september, and I started working out with my buddy, Wayne on October 15th. And in exactly 2 months, I had lost 30 pounds. I WAS 232 pounds, and now, I'm 202. And I'm not talking about looking like Arnold, just getting in shape. (Other than circle...circle ISNT a shape ;-). I head back to SouthWest Asia in 2 days, and I just felt impressed to make a new plan, to set new goals, because if I can loose 30 lbs of fat in 2 months, What can potentially happen in the 6 more months I have left?

The second thing is that there are areas of my life yet unsurrendered to God, and I know in my heart of hearts that He wants them, and that as long as they are unsurrendered, they will hinder me in being and doing all that He wants me to be and do. That may sound very simple, like you just want to go, "well, then, just surrender it!- Duh!" But sometimes, it's just not that simple. So, I pray for strength and wisdom to let it go.

Now, just rambling on a bit, I find it funny, that once I lost a significant amount of weight, I began to talk about "the way I used to be". And then, I remembered a passage from a book I recently read, (But sadly, now I dont remember if it was Our Covenant God or Velvet Elvis). Anyway, the author says that in the 1st Century, Christians refered to the way they were before they became Christians as the "old man" or "The way we were before". Before we met this man, Jesus, before we were reconciled and reunited with the King of Everything, and adopted as His Sons and Daughters through His Sacrifice, His body, His blood, His love. And I think that sometimes, we forget that, as Christians. We know who we WERE, because that's still a part of our past, our history, and we struggle with that "old way" every day, and Fail (alot) to see ourselves the way that Christ sees us. Down south, where I was raised, you are all the time hearing , "Well, I'm just a sinner saved by grace." And the truth is...you (we) WERE just a sinner, saved by grace, NOW you are the Righteousness of God, Kings and Priests to God (2 Cor. 5:21, Rev. 1:6, 5:10).

Anyway, I dont know if any of that made sense, and sorry for the rambling. Like I said, it's early.