"Love the skin you're in", "Get your best body ever", "Lose those last last ten pounds", "Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels", "Size 0 is the new size 6", blah,blah,blah,blah!
That's the world's message to young and old women alike. We struggle within a world that refuses to take the spotlight off of what size you are!
And it's no wonder! Every Magazine that graces the news stands these days start with some title referring to ones self and how you can beautify & better it.
In Style, Cosmopolitan, Self, Glamour, Vogue, Shape, Allure, etc. with all of the articles enclosed guiding and directing us desperate women on the fine art of looking like the model that graced the cover.
Women who are insecure about their bodies are more likely to buy beauty products, new clothes, and diet aids. What a fortune these companies are making off of us! I think what is the most disturbing fact of all is that the media images of female beauty are unattainable for all but a very small number of women.
Not me. I'm done.
As a Christian women I know better. But..... I still live in this body of flesh, I still give into the sly whispers of Satan, I still believe that last article telling me it's as simple as A,B,& C.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well. Pslm 139:14
What does it mean to be fearfully and wonderfully made?
I can't give you a accademically correct answer but I can tell you what it means to me.
It means I believe you Lord. It means you said it, and I am going to believe it. It means that I am no longer going to worry and fret if I can never obtain a perfect by the world's standards size zero frame, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Beleive this. There is power in His word, and it truly has set me free.
Amen
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