No More Christian Nice Girl: When Just Being Nice—Instead of Being Good—Hurts You, Your Family, and Your Friends. (Baker Publishing Group, 2010), p. 18
The “disease to please” runs rampant in society and in many churches, resulting in women who act more like girls than powerful women of loving faith. Consequently, far too many women are not being transformed into the true image of Christ, and not living like the heroic women of faith in the Bible. Instead, they have become hamster-wheel women of immense frustration, burnout, and depression with lives that lack purpose and integrity.
God is definitely moving in this area in many lives!
Earlier this year I gave up a number of things that I was doing (long story).
This has been a recurring theme over the years, but I really see a something different this time.
Suffice it to say that I am hoping that God will continue to form me into the image of Christ by my continued yielding to Him, rather than what I was trying to form