PSALM 139
One of my favorite verses in the Bible. As women, we face a lot of accusation from the enemy about being confident with our bodies, and who God created us to be. The media is always flashing a new standard, that seems to be shrinking, along with food portions that we are to intake. And as most of you know, you are what you eat. The food that we give our bodies really does affect us. Media and Hollywood's standard are very unrealistic and unattainable, I know that is a bold statement but its true. I've been there, and done that, before knowing Jesus as my Lord and savior and it left me absolutely miserable and empty inside. I was NEVER enough, nor was I ever going to get there, wherever ENOUGH was, for all I know its in outer space before NASA invented the aircraft's to fly into space.
As i was running this afternoon, i noticed some thoughts began to creep into my mind, about self image. Thoughts like, well summer is coming you really need to get serious. Don't you want to look good...? Then I said no! In my mind, but sometimes I do say stuff like that out loud. No shame.And I started speaking psalm 130 over myself, declaring that I am the Lord's, beautiful daughter. I have been hand crafted by the king of glory himself, I am beautiful inside and out! Man, did I feel so much better. Truth cut right through all of those lies and yuck, and freedom filled my heart and mind. Which caused me to reflect on powerful our decisions really are. I could of chose to let those thoughts control me and overtake me, but I chose truth. I chose to look at those lies square in the face say and say NO to them. What a beautiful victory! Then I thought I should post this on mt Facebook wall to hold myself accountable to working out...and it turned into this lovely post. All that said, my original intentions in writing this was to hold myself accountable to my schedule :
Eating healthy
Time in the Word
Intimacy with Jesus
Rest
Mile run
Hill sprints
Stretching
Dancing
Drinking water
Amen.
May you be blessed from this post! P.S. don't forget Mother's day is tomorrow :)
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