They believed a lie and they ate— Eve then Adam. With that act came the responsibility to discern between good and evil. They immediately were ashamed and sought to hide themselves, even from each other. When God came to the garden, they were hiding. He asked them, “Who told you were naked?” The sin was a burden that cost them the close garden relationship with God and ultimately their lives.
We are still dealing with Satan’s lies that cause a great burden. The Jubilee Project has a video out called “Comfortable: 50 People 1 Question.” In this video, they asked adults, “What one thing would you change about your body?” Some began by saying, “Just one?” and then a parade of people each named a specific thing they would change. Most of them mentioned that they were told that they were “too this” or “too that.” The last part of the video showed children, ages 4 to 11, being asked the same question. You know what they wanted? Mermaid tails, shark teeth and wings to fly were among the things mentioned. Some shrugged as though they had never thought about it and others said, “There is nothing I would change.”
So my question to you would be, “Who told you that you were too tall, short, fat or skinny?” Satan uses our self-image as a tool to keep us focused on what society would say we should look like. This is a fickle, subjective and unrealistic beauty. Health concerns aside, it doesn’t matter. No amount of anxiety or worry will change those things that you were born with. “And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?” (Matt. 6:27). Satan would have us trapped in the prison of our own self-loathing and abasement, not feeling worthy of love and overpowered by a distorted self-image and self-worth.
Listen to what God says you are. “Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Cor. 3:16). “Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it” (1 Cor. 12:27). “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:26). “But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Pet. 2:9). “You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
We were given this earthly home for just a short time. Do not be burdened with Satan’s lies. It is God that has formed us and God that says who we are. It is God that paid a price so high for us that no one should ever feel worthless.