As a guy, I don’t know a lot about eating disorders. I know that some guys can have them too, but I know that many, many more girls have them. I admit that I don’t know the way they make you feel inside. But of this one thing I am sure:
Eating disorders are wicked. The word wickedness comes the closest, I think, to describing the source and effects of what happens to a girl when her self-image is marred by a sin-induced view of beauty and image. More than just a by-product of the Fall, eating disorders are an offensive attack by Satan himself to reduce the God ordained beauty of a quiet and gentle spirit, to the fleeting beauty and deceptive charm of self-centered flesh. Agh! It sickens me! And it breaks my heart guys, to think that I too have helped to fuel such a Christ-less view of beauty as we have in the world today. There is nothing God honoring about it.
And as I thought about all those souls dealing with this tonight, I wanted to cry out like Paul:
“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.”
Oh Lord Jesus, come quickly! For you are the Soul-saver, the Right-maker, and the Beauty-perfecter…and oh how this world needs you today!
‘BH
