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Fixing Our Eyes on What Is Unseen

If we’re blessed to have made it to middle age and beyond, we’re living with a painful reality: Our outer selves are wasting away. We’re frustrated and maybe a little angry, because we were created to hate physical aging and death. It was not God’s original plan. Sin is what contaminated our perfection and caused us to contend with all things imperfect. So, in addition to struggling for a lifetime with our beauty issues, we now grapple with the decaying reflection we see in the mirror. What’s a girl to do? Run to Scripture, of course! 

As you read 2 Corinthians 4, perhaps the troubles of aging do not seem “light and momentary” to you, but considering eternity, they are. Nevertheless, we must live in these bodies until our final breaths, and how we look and feel will always matter to us. How do we realize a sense of contentment in our physical lives, especially about the things we cannot change? 

Paul tells us exactly what to do: “We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen” (verse 18). This doesn’t mean we won’t care about our bodies or our beauty; it means we will not be obsessed with them. Instead, we will choose to be fixated on Christ and all the many blessings and promises he’s made. One of those promises includes a brand-new, shiny, perfect, glorified body like His one day! One day we will be completely satisfied with our physicality. We will not play the comparison game. We will have no pain. We will experience utter perfection.

But there is a solution for our temporary discomfort. First, we do our part to take good care of our bodies—our only vehicles for this present life. We pray that the practical ideas in Eat, Live, Thrive Diet will help you do that. Second, we renew our minds with truth so that we can find peace and contentment. 

Rather than desiring self-confidence, we believe God calls us to Christ-confidence, which comes from learning to see ourselves through our Creator’s eyes. By taking an inventory of our attitudes, we can identify our unhealthy thoughts and surrender them to God. We can ask Him to help us discard those falsehoods and embrace the truth of who we are in Christ—physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually.

How can you shift your focus to see yourself more as God sees you rather than how others see you?  

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