Her in His Image

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I think that many women struggle with themselves: We engage in self-shaming talk and we are hard on ourselves. We feel and carry around guilt and shame even though we don’t really know where it came from. We often feel the need to apologise for who we are, and the way that we are.

Genesis 1:27

so God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

It’s easy for us to hear that we were made in the image of God, but HOW are we as women, made in the image of a God we believe to be masculine? How is she made in the image of Him?

You emotions, your vulnerability, your spirit, your gentleness or your fierceness, your rising and falling, eccentric, reserved self – that is from the image of God. There is no mistake in who you are. There is no mistake in how often you cry, how sensitive you feel, how deeply you are moved by “insignificant” things or how loud and questioning you can be.

Song of Songs 4:7

All of you is beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.

No, no. There is no mistake in who you are.

By Samantha Schreiner

One thought on “Her in His Image

    lwazigumede said:
    October 22, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    it good to know there is someone Who feel the way we do someone we can turn to, someone who never judge us but guides us because of his love for us. thanks Sam for these words.

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