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Be Transformed

GOD’S RENOVATION PROJECT

Long before you had a heartbeat, God knew everything about you – the sound of your voice, your gifts and talents, and what would uniquely motivate your heart. God knew the specific time and place you would arrive to add value to the world. From the shape of your thighs to the dreams in your heart, you were intentionally molded by the hands of God.

But, the enemy does everything in his power to steal, kill, and destroy your beautiful design and the image of the holy God in you.

I have personally experienced Satan’s thievery, specifically concerning my body. After a few years of passionate involvement in the fitness industry, I was doing everything I could to be a model of health and fitness so others might invest in my passion. Yet, I became sensitive to the fact that I lacked something – breasts!

Although God had blessed me with an athletic build to go with my passion and call, no matter how hard I trained, I would never be able to increase my breast size. I fell into Satan’s trap with my unrenewed mind, and he convinced me to hijack my original physical design.

In 1999, I went under the knife and woke up from anesthesia transformed from a double A to a C cup. I spent the next fifteen years looking more like a woman than I ever had, filling out my dresses a little more, and having the more “perfect” body, and yet…getting implants did not fill the ache in my soul or help the sadness and anger in my heart. Only the love of Jesus did that. And the more I fell in love with God, the more I realized those plastic orbs inside me weren’t me. They hadn’t been given by God. The deceiver had offered them to me, and I had believed his twisted tale that I was not enough without them.

In 2015, after eighteen years of growing up in my true identity as a child of God and fifteen years of carrying around what felt like two lies inside my chest, I sensed God inviting me to bravely return to my original design and come back to my whole self by removing my breast implants.

Though I had set myself up for disappointment by thinking I’d find satisfaction and meaning in a larger cup size, I now realize I was acting out of a universal need. The eternal God, who can make all things new, has planted that desire for transformation in all our hearts.

Reflect:

Is there a lie you believe that tempts you to change your original design?