My Body: Friend or Foe?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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True freedom from body hatred does not come from finally liking what we see in the mirror. It comes from being swept up in the greatness of God.

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0:00.0	Well, is my body my friend or is my body my foe?
0:09.0	It's a question we must ask and answer and we can with scripture.
0:11.9	The question comes in from an anonymous woman, Hello Pastor John, I'm a Christian female
0:16.0	in my 20s.
0:17.8	Ever since puberty, I have hated my body.
0:20.8	I constantly feel uncomfortable in my own skin and obsess about what other people might
0:25.5	be thinking about it.
0:27.5	In the last eight years of my life, I'm not sure I've gone a full minute without having
0:31.4	intrusive, destructive and negative thoughts about my physical appearance.
0:36.8	Sometimes I wonder if I have a mental illness and I know the value of having this checked
0:40.0	out by a doctor and I have, but I would love biblical help from you.
0:45.4	scripture says I was fearfully and wonderfully made and that God doesn't look at the outward
0:49.8	appearance but looks at my heart.
0:52.2	I believe these things are true, but what about my view of myself?
0:57.3	What would you say to me?
0:59.2	I hope we all understand and agree that I know very, very little about this situation and
1:07.8	cannot presume to speak into it with the kind of wisdom that would come from knowing not
1:15.5	only scripture, but also the person in the situation.
1:20.7	So let's all agree that what I say is not a simplistic remedy for what sounds like
1:28.6	a deep and lasting problem, but rather a biblical perspective that might, along with other
1:36.7	factors, be used by God to bring freedom.
1:41.4	That would be my prayer.
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