“I do not know the designations that the world has given you, or the things that have been said about your body, or done to your body. I do not know what binds you. But I do know that if the body is the place where Satan sews shame then how amazing is it that a human body is also what God chose to take on to be with us? That God would, as we say, slip into skin and walk among us...that God would choose to make God’s home in an actual human body – in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. I just can’t overstate the significance of this. Because while shame might be demonic and might pull us low with bent back, it is no match for a God who goes to the cross, takes profound humiliation and insult into their body and responds with only forgiveness and love and 3 days later defeats sin, death AND the devil by rising that body from the dead. And then hangs out with his friends in his still wounded and yet still glorified body and asks where the snacks are. All of this is to say, that God saves you IN your body, not FROM your body.” Read more, share, and subscribe to more of Nadia’s content by clicking “The Corners” link in bio. This is and excerpt from Nadia’s post called, “Human Bodies and The Image of God. a sermon on shame and healing.”