Step Two - Trusting God with Our Struggle with Food
- Julie Kleinhans
- Nov 15, 2025
- 2 min read
Perhaps you are like I was…
I believed in God.
I trusted Him with the “big” things — my family, my health, my salvation, my future.
But my struggle with overeating?
I never prayed about that.
It felt too small… too personal… too embarrassing… just not important enough to bother God with. I felt like He had bigger, more urgent prayers to answer.
But here’s what I learned:
God is so much bigger and loves us so much more than we could ever imagine!
♦ Scripture tells us that He rejoices over us with singing (Zephaniah 3:17).
♦ And Jesus Himself said that God has numbered every hair on our head (Matthew 10:30).
If God loves us with that level of detail, care, and affection…
Why would He not want to help us with the daily battle so many of us face with food?
That new-found knowledge changed everything for me.
**This is the heart of Step Two:
“Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”**
And, of course, for us Christians, the God of the Bible is that power, and He can help us with all things - including our struggle with overeating.
Overeating isn’t about lack of willpower.
It’s a physical (we know sugar and processed foods are addictive), emotional, and spiritual struggle — and God cares about every layer of it.
Many of us have:
• eaten past fullness
• hidden food
• eaten in secret
• gone on late-night food runs
• eaten things we didn’t even enjoy
• felt shame, regret, or hopelessness afterward
And still, God does not turn away.
He invites us to lay our shame at the feet of Jesus and trust that He can help us recover.
Step Two is where hope begins.
It’s where we stop relying on our own strength and start believing that God truly can restore our thinking, our habits, and our relationship with food.
If you’re struggling, remember this truth today:
You matter deeply to God.
Your recovery matters to Him too.
And with His help — real, lasting change is absolutely possible.
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