Anywhere you go it is inevitable that you will see someone who is extremely abundant in outer beauty. In today’s society that is what girls aspire and aim for, it is what many guys want in a girl, and it is what people are judged on: outward appearance. This is the sad reality of our world today. People should remember it is what comes from within which makes a person who they are and for what they should be judged. “It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful. No, your beauty should come from within you—the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit that will never be destroyed and is very precious to God.” 1 Peter 3:3-4 (NCV)
Also in all things everyone: every single person on this planet, big or small, popular or seemingly insignificant is beautiful through the Lord God. He created each and every one of us with a design so unique not another is like it. There are almost 7 billion people in the world and for God to create each of them with such intricate and careful design we are completely unique, one in 7 billion. “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.” Psalm 139:13-14 (ESV). He made me, me. He made you, you. He made her, her. He made him, him. He made us all who he wanted us to be.
God created us, and God creates beautiful things. God looks at how pure our hearts are, not how much physical beauty we posses. Many girls are blinded by societies’ belief that it is the opposite. “Charm can mislead and beauty soon fades but the woman to be admired and praised is the woman who lives in Fear-of-God” Proverbs 31:30 (MSG). Through God we are made beautiful and we need to realize that; in Song of Songs 4:7 He says “My darling everything about you is beautiful and there is nothing at all wrong with you” (NCV). WE WERE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD, I don’t know about you but I don’t think there is anything more beautiful than that.
We live in a, culture, a society that bombards us with messages of insecurity, telling us we’re not pretty enough that we’re not good enough. The Christian community says no, you’re good, you’re beautiful but the danger of that is that it often promotes self-esteem and we’re looking within ourselves trying to find our value, our beauty, our worth. God is calling us to more than this. We need to find our value in God. We are good enough because God created us!
I have struggled a lot with not feeling good enough, feeling ugly and worthless, and insecurities. But I have come to realize that I am more than good enough, I am perfect in God’s eyes. I am no ugly or worthless, I am beautiful inside and out, I am not worthless, I am worth so much to God I have so much value and it comes through God. I have no need to be insecure, I have God and with that alone I am completely secure in myself. It took my years to realize this but I am so glad that I did and I hope every girl in the world can realize it too. Say it with me: “I am beautiful, I am good enough, and I am worthy.”
Looking at how I always viewed myself, I would never want to see another girl think of herself the way I thought of myself. It breaks my heart to know girls feel the way that they do. Every girl deserves to know that they are beautiful just the way that they are, they deserve to be told that. Whether or not they are told they still should know that they are. I always longed to be told that by guys, and because they didn’t tell me I felt like I was worthless and ugly. The guys were all looking at the other girls and thinking they were beautiful and amazing, and I wanted that too. I thought that because they didn’t there was something wrong with me. I know plenty of girls who feel this same way, but let me let you in on a little secret: God looks at you and thinks you’re beautiful and amazing and heck God thinking that is so much better than any guy (even Justin Bieber) thinking that.
I had this misconception of who I was because of the person everyone told me that I was. They told me I was: ugly, fat, stupid, worthless, annoying, mean, and so on. Anything you can call someone, you can bet I have been called it, I heard it so much I believed it was true. But looking at me it was far from true. These people who didn't even know the real me were judging me, in high school and life that’s going to happen no matter what, but I had to learn that it doesn't matter what they think or say. All that matters is what God thinks and says of me, I only let God judge me now. I hope girls can realize that and remember to only care what God thinks. And God thinks we are amazing.
As if I could not make it any clearer I’m going to say it again, beauty comes from within. But true beauty also comes through a life fully surrendered to Jesus Christ. It is when He can be seen in and through you. We really won’t have any true beauty until He transforms us from the inside out. Nothing else can give us that true beauty. We must surrender ourselves to Him, completely surrender. Christ said that whoever doesn’t forsake all that he has cannot be His disciple. We must decrease so that He might increase, if we’re in the way, living the way we want to live, His beauty will not be seen through us. True beauty can only be acquired by true surrender, full surrender.
Every single person in the world is beautiful because God created them. God doesn’t make junk. Real beauty comes from within the heart. But TRUE BEAUTY come from living a life for God and surrendering to Him.
