1 Peter 5: 7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. 8 Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

give all your worries and cares to God because He cares about you...

that is so much easier said than done...... I find in my own life.. I give my worries or cares to God.. just to snatch them back again... if they were physical items I could touch and feel.. I can almost see myself just rolling them around in my hands.. thinking about them.. knowing that there is nothing I can do to fix them.. yet I can't seem to actually give them to God and leave them there either... 

it's somewhat amazing that we know we are powerless to fix something... yet we seem unable (or is it unwilling) to let it go either..

he roams around like a roaring lion... seeking who he can devour...

idk about you.. but I don't want to be devoured by the enemy.. not by any enemy... I don't really want to be controlled by anything.. I think in order for me to be protected from being devoured or controlled.. the answer would lie in Jesus... I would have to completely give myself over to God... 

in my mind I think I have done that.. but if there is something else taking up my mind space.. then that part of my mind is not given over to God... *sighs*

Father.. change me... from the inside out... I give you reign over my mind... keep reminding me.. when my thoughts begin to wander.. to give whatever it is.. back to You... so that You are Lord Supreme over my life! 

since starting this made to crave bible study... I have had to actually look at my eating habits...  and I can easily admit.. most of the times when I eat I am not hungry... I think it has to do with a few different things.. one of them is the t.v. commercials... just make you imagine you need to eat... another is what I am thinking about... when I am wrestling with things in my mind.. I pick something up to do with my hands... namely food... often not even junk food.. but excess is still excess... it just happens to be better excess than it used to be...