I want my life to have weight in this world.
I want the encounters I have, the words I say and the way I walk to be a testimony of the cross. My body is bound to experience more changes in the coming years. Weight will come and go, and the mirror on the wall will continue to whisper lies and insecurity into my ears, but the freedom I have in Christ has already broken every chain that once shackled my heart.
The weight of glory is this—Jesus has already set me free from my past, present and future. My eyes aren’t on my size, because Jesus is the Prize.
Satan tried to discourage me on Sunday, but Christ won.
As women of God, we can’t stand for the lies of the enemy. We have to be on guard against his ways and arm ourselves with the truth. If we truly want to have the kind of weight that matters in this world, we need to step off the scale and start obsessing our hearts with Christ.
As Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 4:16-18, “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
IT IS THE WEIGHT OF HIS GLORY THAT WILL LAST FOREVER. OUR BODIES, OUR AFFLICTIONS OUR CIRCUMSTANCES ARE JUST TEMPORARY REMINDERS THAT WE WEREN’T MADE FOR THIS WORLD, WE WERE MADE FOR GLORY IN CHRIST.
It’s time we took our eyes off the numbers, scales and sizes and consumed our lives with the weight of glory in Jesus Christ. You are already free, sisters.
Nothing holds you in chains anymore because Jesus holds the key that sets you free.
Let’s live for the kind of weight that matters—sharing the glory of Christ with a world that desperately needs to know there is freedom, today.
Walking in freedom (ice cream in hand),
Gretchen
