Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Beauty


     I'm so in love with life and truly living. Finding beauty in what you see is something that shouldn't have to be learned now a days, but it is. We wait for others to call something beautiful before we form our own opinions on its beauty. But when do we stop to tell ourselves how beautiful we really are? And when do we remind ourselves how beautiful God thinks we are?

     We need to start realizing that our beauty doesn't lie in any earthy thing. Our beauty isn't defined by how we look or what we've accomplished. Our beauty is known. It is known and celebrated by the one who gave it to us in the beginning. The one who made you as beautiful as you've become. No matter what you look like or what you think defines you as beautiful, we have a God who looks past the looks, and believes our beauty lies with Him. He said we are His beloved, and his greatest accomplishment.

     When you think of the thing that is most beautiful to you what do you think of? The stars maybe, a sunset, or even the mountains. It's crazy to comprehend the fact that God looks at those things and knows that His greatest masterpiece was you. That you are more beautiful than every earthly thing you can see put together by Him. I think He did this on purpose. God created all of these insanely beautiful places and things to look at so that we could look back at ourselves and remind ourselves that He sees us above all that. That he sees you more beautiful than the stars. More beautiful than the sunsets. More beautiful than anything else in creation.

     I think we often like to compare ourselves to what others see as beautiful and let that idea tear us down as women. We look at how the media portrays beauty right now and if we can't exactly measure up to someone else's expectation of beauty then we aren't worthy enough to feel beautiful. But I'm here to say that aside from what the media may say about being beautiful, we have the creator of mankind telling us that there is no one else more beautiful than you. 1 Peter 3:3-4 says "Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight." I love this verse so much because it's so true to our lives as women. We try to change things about our outer self to become more beautiful when in reality, it's your inner beauty that truly makes you beautiful. Nothing we can change on the outside will renew us like the change of our hearts will, and that's what makes us completely beautiful anyways.