BLOGWORDS – Sunday 25 June 2017 – FRONT PORCH FELLOWSHIP – IN HIS IMAGE

BLOGWORDS – Sunday 25 June 2017 – FRONT PORCH FELLOWSHIP – IN HIS IMAGE
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FRONT PORCH FELLOWSHIP – IN HIS IMAGE
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I’ve been doing a week long feature on the topic of shaming—and overcoming that shame. Varina Denman’s novel, Looking Glass Lies, is a profound look at shaming, specifically body image. This book impacted me more than perhaps any other work I’ve ever read.

 

And today, I go to the Source of our image, our identity, and our recovery from all the world’s affliction—the Word of God.

 

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Let that sink in. We are created in the image of God Almighty. He made us like Himself. I am not God, we are not gods, but we are like Him.

 

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That’s a line from my new novel, The Long Shadows of Summer. God sees us as royalty. The world tells us otherwise.

 

I remember vividly a counseling session with a pastor friend. The lies were so embedded in my mind, in every fiber of my being. Lies spoken through my mother’s voice. Mother. The one who is supposed to nurture us. The one voice we instinctively trust.

 

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I posted that last week. Lies embedded in me for years, decades. But God. His Word, and only His Word uprooted and unseeded those lies.

 

And have replaced them with Truth.

 

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I.am.wonderfully.made. Father didn’t just throw some old scraps together and say, “Yeah, that’s good enough. It’s just Robin. It doesn’t really matter…”

No, He made me with excellence and consideration, intention and purpose.

 

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I am the work of Father’s hand, his handiwork, His masterpiece. Or as a tagline from years past, God don’t make no junk. Everything He creates is a masterpiece, done in excellence and perfection.

 

I can walk tall and proud because that’s who He made me to be. That’s who He created each one of us to be. The enemy will never quit trying to pull us away from Father, out of His hands. But the good news is, neither with our heavenly Father quit holding tight to us, even when we turn away from him. Even—perhaps especially—when we believe the lies.

 

Truth prevails. God’s Word prevails and triumphs. It always has, and it always will.

 

I leave you with this, which is part of my daily devotions and confessions.

 

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