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Body image. What a struggle to balance with loving who you are as a child of Christ and also staying healthy but wanting to work on your body. I can not seem to figure out the balance for the life of me.

You see, I have always struggled a lot with my weight and I have always struggled with accepting who I am. Admitting to myself that I am beautiful is not easy.

I have been on many different dieting plans and I always lose some, then something happens and I want to be a pig-out again and not worry about the weight loss.

I read a book by Nicki Koziarz called, 5 Habits of a Woman Who Doesn't Quit. Not until recently have I been convicted of the sins of consistently quitting. For me, it is consistently quitting being healthy. When I quit, I go back to the same feelings - ugly and unworthy.

My sophomore year of college, I realized how much I need God but also how much of an issue my feeling of being unworthy based on beauty was. My friend told me to take down all the mirrors in my room. I told my roommates and they were up to help me succeed. I worked on loving my body because I know that it is created in the image of God.

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27

I hope we can all remember the times of discouragement how much God loves us. He intimately created us even before our moms knew we were a thing. He knows what our lives hold for us. He knows what my children are like (I pray he gives me some daily). He intimately created my personality and my body. He gave me everything I need to be who I am.

The media tells us what a perfect body is. As women, we idolize those bodies and want those bodies but that is wrong and unbiblical when God created us in a certain way for a reason. As 2 Corinthians 10:12 says it, we are stupid to compare ourselves to others.

We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise. 2 Corinthians 10:12

Why would we rather be anything than what God intimately created us to be?

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