One of our greatest desires is to be known. We want to be known and to know other people. That desire to be known only can ONLY be fulfilled by God. God not only purposed and planned our outward appearance but also our personality and emotional make-up. Every single minor detail of who I am, of who you are. You cannot compare when there us ONLY ONE you. You are like no other and no other is like you. No one matches you and no one ever will. Each of us God has uniquely created and He has a unique purpose for each one of us! Because pf our uniqueness only you can fill that unique purpose that He has for us. When we are not happy with how we are created in any way then we are grieving Him because He has made us PERFECT. He is the perfect Creator. God does NOT make mistakes! EVER!
We need to thank God for the things we do not like about ourselves. Let God show you how He sees you...a perfect beauty for him. No matter your size, your shape, your race, or your class in life. No matter what so and so says you should be or the way they say you should live. No matter what the world says about you.... YOU ARE PERFECT.
It is OUR responsibility to do the right thing as a woman. There is a roadway and WE are the one that must choose which one to go on.
I struggle every day...I know you do to and if you say you aren't you are a liar! :D Because we are all sinners, human, woman at heart. We have the need to feel wanted, beautiful, "perfect" as we know it here on earth. What we have to realize is we are perfect. We really are. If we will look in the mirror and see what God sees...ah I think we would feel so loved and so confident about ourselves. It is just so darn hard to do. :)
I know I will always feel it. No matter how often I say I am going to ignore it and no matter how often I do overlook it it will always flare up its ugly face when I am feeling happy. People always saying you aren't good enough or you aren't doing something right. You need to change this, you need to believe this and live this way. We will always face it till the day we die. We all compare. We all judge. We all try to be somebody else at some point in our lives. BUT...I HAVE figured out that those moments are the moments we are the most miserable and those moments are the ones we only make others miserable too.
I believe that this is the best possible prayer I could pray every day. It is filled with reminders to me, promises, hope, comfort, humility and then a time when I can vent to the Lord about life! It helps to remember that He really DOES care. He doesn't want those spiritual "memorized" or "elegant" prayers half the time you don't even understand yourself. He wants you to talk to him like you would your best friend! All that venting, all the joy of your day, all the happenings. He even wants to know about the frustration of not being able to find two pairs of matching shoes ANYWHERE in the same size for your boys! :D He really is more than a Mighty God we have to "lavishes with poems" and "spiritual supplication"! He is our FRIEND! Ain't I glad of that.
Read the scripture below and soak it in. I know our lives are busy but if you are still reading right now you have the time to read this. Be a sponge...hold this inside you today. I know there is chaos all around us. Work...kids...school...schedules...people...life... But let God talk to you. Let this be your prayer for the day and see what God does because of it. Lets drink it in and let God open our hearts and eyes to how He sees us....how He sees other people. How precious you are. How precious other people are. Let it change how you look at yourself. A precious gem. Let it change how you look at the jewels around you. No matter what they look like, how they dress, how they act, what they listen to, where they go...Let God love through you. He loves them no less than He loves you. He loves them no more than He does you!
O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.
You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.
You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord.
You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!
I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!
If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.
If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.
I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
How precious are your thoughts about me,O God. They cannot be numbered!
I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!
O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!
They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name.
O Lord, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?
Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
~Psalm 139~
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