Misleading

Today has been an excellent day overall. I woke up early enough today so that I could actually look like a girl...ie brush my hair/plucked my eyebrows/popped in the contacts. I was walking to class and I just felt good, ya know? I felt beautiful because I actually tried. Then I started thinking about a verse that I heard once...

1 Peter 3:3-4 Message Version: "3 What matters is not your outer appearance-the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, or the cut of your clothes-4 but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in."

Jesus is not impressed when I am rockin my designer jacket and earrings. These outward things are not what should define how I feel about myself. In the world that we live in beauty is all external and so that makes us Christian ladies second guess ourselves. BUT DO NOT FORGET...We have the assurance that we are truly beautiful because Jesus resides within us. Because of this promise I know that next week, when I wake up ten minutes before class and I throw on some sweat pants and swig some listerine, I will be just as beautiful in the eyes of the only man who really matters...JESUS!!

Sooo ladies just in case you missed it the first time please read Psalm 139:14 which says, "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Emphasis on the whole WONDERFULLY MADE!

Have you ever made something for someone and you were super excited about but when you give it to them all they can do is complain about it?! Pretty frustrating wasn't it?

HELLOOOO!! This is what we do to God every time we look in the mirror and say, "I have gained so much weight" or "OMG my face is ALWAYS broken out."(don't worry I am super guilty of this as well) He created each of us the exact way that He wants us and He thinks that we are B-E-A-UTIFUL! Like the mom rabbit off of Bambi- "if you can't say anything nice then don't say anything at all!" Think about it this way...each time you pick your appearance apart you hurt God's feelings because you are his creation who is "fearfully and wonderfully made". Now do you really want to be THAT GUY that hurts God's feelings?? I think not:)

Are you up for a challenge?

From now on when you look into the mirror pick out something you like about your appearance and then thank God for blessing you with what ever that may be. 

YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL INSIDE & OUT!!!