Your Body Is His Temple: Overcoming Body Image Issues

Have you ever looked at your body and felt like it was the problem? So many of us, as women, have wrestled with feelings of frustration, disappointment, or even betrayal when it comes to our physical selves. We try to “fix” or control it, or quietly believe the lie that something about us is profoundly wrong. But what if the deeper struggle isn't your body at all, but the story you've believed about it?

This week, we're diving into a powerful chapter from Glenna Marshall's Known and Loved, where we explore our bodies, our identity, and the quiet tension of longing for something more than what we experience here on Earth. The truth is, we don't just struggle with our bodies; we long for something they can't fully give us yet. And that longing isn't a flaw – it's a pointer to something far greater.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Glenna Marshall invites us to consider Psalm 139:13-16:

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. Psalm 139:13-16

Isn't that just a breathtaking description of God's intentionality? He didn't just create you; He formed you, knitted you, woven you. Every cell, every detail, thoughtfully put together with awe and wonder. He saw you when no one else could, and He wrote your story from beginning to end, long before you even existed. God is the reliable narrator who made you with care and love, knowing full well that the