Day Twenty-seven: FEEDING AND GROWING


Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
—JOHN 3:6 NIV

What you feed will grow.

If you feed self-doubt, it will grow. If you feed a desire for God’s blessings, it will grow.

Every time you make a choice, you move. You move closer to, or further away from, your true self, your true beauty. Making choices that nurture and treat your body with respect will begin to create in you an expectation of honor that will dramatically affect all of your other choices.

In Galatians 5:22–26, the Bible warns us of everything evil we are prone to choose, including contention, jealousy, lewdness, selfish ambition, and jealousy. If we feed this “flesh,” or carnal nature, we will become “conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.” I recognize this in myself when I compare myself to other women, when I judge a woman as she enters a room. This reaction is from the corrupted nature within, not from God. I can’t feed this judgmental nature or it will grow larger and larger until it consumes whatever peace I had when I believed I was loved and called beautiful. It will destroy the harmony I have with other women.

Instead, I have to focus on feeding what needs to grow in my life: true love, for myself and for others, including those women who have what I want or think I need. I am the only one who can water the garden within my spirit where this precious vine grows.

Ask: Give me a fresh encounter with You today.

Believe: I am feeding my beauty, and it is growing.

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