![]() We’re playing a constant game of comparison, and we can begin despising those that we feel have been physically blessed. We are thinking about their size or their skin or their hair. Suddenly we aren’t looking at the people around us with spiritual eyes. It also changes the way we see other people. Because here is the truth about an obsession with appearance: it doesn’t just shift our focus from our spiritual condition to our physical. It must be one of hell’s favorite ways to make us spiritually blind. How can we not see that we are idolizing our bodies? Maybe you love your face so much that you spend large chunks of your day taking selfies so that you can get the approval of the world on social media. ![]() Maybe it is what defines who you are in your mind. Maybe you love your body so much that you show it off at every opportunity. Or maybe you are on the other side of things. But, have you ever considered that an idol can also be something that you think about more than you think about God? Even if it’s something that you hate? I wonder how many women out there, if we really admit it, spend a large portion of every day obsessing about the way we look? How many times a day do you have a hateful thought about some body part you despise? How often do you long for a body or face like someone else? Have you ever, like me, left the house for church on Sunday morning completely crushed by the feeling that you are not attractive enough? I’ve heard it said that an idol is anything that you love more than you love God. Those types of articles are poison to our hearts and minds. Apparently now just being thin isn’t enough. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the way, thin, muscular women are supposedly the ideal body type. women who are thin who also have muscles. Imagine my disappointment when I realized that the article was comparing women who are thin vs. I clicked over, hoping that we have finally started moving back toward pale and chunky, like the objects of beauty in the paintings from the Renaissance. Today I ran across an article about how science has now supposedly proven what the most attractive body type is. ![]()
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