Elsewhere's article, revised and updated:
How Can I Conquer This Habit?
I began eating when I was eight years old. Later I learned God’s view of the matter. I felt terrible every time I gave in. ‘How could God love someone like me?’ I asked myself. I felt sure that I would not make it into God’s new world.”—Luiz.
PERHAPS you, like Luiz, have been enslaved to the habit of eating. You know that Jehovah would be pleased with you if you resisted the urge and exercised self-control, a fruit (damnit, don't mention fruit!) of God’s holy spirit. (Galatians 5:22, 23; 2 Peter 1:5, 6) But at times you give in. After each relapse, you conclude that you are a lost cause, that you are incapable of living up to God’s righteous standards.