Breaking Free From Body Comparison

I'm going to share one one little story with you guys before we go to a listener question.

But I was, I had a dream.

I was, I was working through some really deep issues in therapy and I had a dream one night and it was so random to me.

There is, there is a story in the Bible.

It's in Numbers 22.

And it's when the...

God opens the donkey's mouth and it talks to its master.

So in the story, there's this guy, Balaam, who talks, who he hears God and he is going to then, he's going to the king Balak's place.

And as he gets on his donkey and Balak, He's about to go through kind of a narrow road and the donkey sees the angel of the Lord, which I believe is Jesus.

He sees the angel of the Lord and the donkey turns and goes to the right into the field.

And Balaam... whips his donkey and says, get back.

We need to go down this road.

So he goes to this road and the angel of the Lord appears again and the donkey sees the angel and he pushes Balaam up against the wall now and smashes his foot.

So Balaam whips his donkey again and says, what are you doing? And then a third time, he tries to make the donkey go through the narrow road and the donkey then gets down on all fours.

And Balaam whips his donkey again and says, what are you doing? And at that moment, the angel of the Lord opened up the donkey's mouth and the donkey spoke to Balaam and said, what are you doing? Why'd you whip me three times? Have I not been your donkey? And I'm paraphrasing.

Have I not been the donkey that's carried you all the days of your life? Have I always been loyal to you?

how often have I veered from what you've asked me to do? And at that moment,

God then reveals himself, the angel of the Lord.

And now Balaam sees that there's an angel in the path, huge, with a sword, I believe.

I mean, massive, just so that there's no way the donkey could pass.

He's blocking the way.

And at that moment, Balaam's eyes were like, I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry to the donkey.

I didn't see.

I didn't know.

I'm going to share one one little story with you guys before we go to a listener question.

But I was, I had a dream.

I was, I was working through some really deep issues in therapy and I had a dream one night and it was so random to me.

There is, there is a story in the Bible.

It's in Numbers 22.

And it's when the...

God opens the donkey's mouth and it talks to its master.

So in the story, there's this guy, Balaam, who talks, who he hears God and he is going to then, he's going to the king Balak's place.

And as he gets on his donkey and Balak, He's about to go through kind of a narrow road and the donkey sees the angel of the Lord, which I believe is Jesus.

He sees the angel of the Lord and the donkey turns and goes to the right into the field.

And Balaam... whips his donkey and says, get back.

We need to go down this road.

So he goes to this road and the angel of the Lord appears again and the donkey sees the angel and he pushes Balaam up against the wall now and smashes his foot.

So Balaam whips his donkey again and says, what are you doing? And then a third time, he tries to make the donkey go through the narrow road and the donkey then gets down on all fours.

And Balaam whips his donkey again and says, what are you doing? And at that moment, the angel of the Lord opened up the donkey's mouth and the donkey spoke to Balaam and said, what are you doing? Why'd you whip me three times? Have I not been your donkey? And I'm paraphrasing.

Have I not been the donkey that's carried you all the days of your life? Have I always been loyal to you?

how often have I veered from what you've asked me to do? And at that moment,

God then reveals himself, the angel of the Lord.

And now Balaam sees that there's an angel in the path, huge, with a sword, I believe.

I mean, massive, just so that there's no way the donkey could pass.

He's blocking the way.

And at that moment, Balaam's eyes were like, I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry to the donkey.

I didn't see.

I didn't know.