Who are you? You are Valuable...

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 The Definition of Valuable: “having great importance or usefulness; cherished or esteemed because of personal qualities; highly prized” Do you consider yourself to be valuable? Often those of us dealing with any form of disordered eating or body image issues fail to recognize our inherent worth. And so, we go to appearance, weight loss and the “answer” of eating disorders to “fix” us. But, we soon find out, there is no fix found there. What we find instead is misery, punishment, disappointment, shame, fear and despair. And then we feel even more useless than when we started out. God has already decided each one of us is valuable, without doing anything to enhance or alter ourselves. Each one of us is as special as this tree made of money. Can you take that in? He created us and desires us so strongly He sent Jesus to die for us, to “buy us back.” Like 1 Corinthians states, we are “bought with a price.” You and I, indeed, are the embodiment of the value definition: “having great importance or usefulness; cherished or esteemed because of personal qualities; highly prized.” Let’s embrace that definition for ourselves as much as God embraces that definition of us! Copyright © 2013 by Sheryle Cruse