Insights for an Appropriate and Biblical Self Image

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Insights for an Appropriate and Biblical Self
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God prescribes us before birth.

• your eyes saw my unformed body, all the days
  ordained for me were written in your book before
  one of them came to be.
• Psalm 13916

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God is not finished with us yet.

• For we are His workmanship created in Christ
  Jesus to do good works, which God has prepared in
  advance for us to do Ephesians 210
• being confident of this, that he who began a
  good work in you will carry it on to completion
  until the day of Christ Jesus.
• Phil 116

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The cause of inferiority is...Comparison /
unchangeable features / appearanceinability to
accept your journey.

• let him who boast, boast in the Lord. For it is
  not the one who commends himself who is approved,
  but the one who the Lord commends.
• 2 Cor. 1017

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Outward beauty is not related to inward happiness.

• do not consider his appearance or his height,
  for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look
  at the things man looks at. Man looks at the
  outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the
  heart.
• I Sam 167

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Gods ideal for us is completely inward.

• Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is
  the kingdom of heaven.
• Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be
  comforted.
• Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the
  earth.
• Matt 53-5

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If necessary God sacrifices outward beauty to
develop inward character.

• we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are
  wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed
  day by day
• 2 Cor. 416
• for what is seen is temporary, but what is
  unseen is eternal.
• 2 Cor. 418b

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Self worth is increased by reproducing Christs
character in others.

• you yourselves are our letter, written on our
  hearts, known and read by everybody.
• 2 Cor. 32

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Differences in unchangeable features are Gods
special frames to hi-lite His unique message.

• My grace is sufficient for you, for my power
  is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will
  boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so
  that Christs power may rest on me when I am
  weak, then I am strong.
• 2 Cor. 129,10

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Gods work and reputation are at stake in our
inward and outward frame..

• He guides me in paths of righteousness for His
  names sake.
• Psalm 233