Lately I have realized how good of a fighter I am, in an instant I can throw my opponent to the ground. I can trample anything they say and do and make it nothing. My words are powerful and cary weight, enough to knock someone out.
There is one major problem here.
I am the opponent and the fighter.
I think at an early age the devil gives us these boxing gloves and teaches us to compare and judge ourselves, tearing down anything that doesn’t fit this image we have for ourselves. There is no possible way to ever be content in this scenario. The enemy always wins.
We as women, as men, as children of God have to throw away these boxing gloves. We have to let go of this image this goal that we are striving to become. We have to let our words stand firm, our ideas ring true, and our thoughts be good enough.
God thinks we are good enough.
It doesn’t matter what she looks like or what gifts he has or how talented they are or how amazing their marriage seems. It doesn’t discount your gifts, talents, and beauty. Yet we get caught up in this competition. There can only be so many pretty ones, so many athletic ones, so many spiritual ones.
That is complete bull. That is the enemy.
You are you. I am me. We are made in our heavenly father’s image. We are beautiful and complete in him. We are redeemed by the cross, we are washed clean. God doesn’t look at us and see the bruised and beaten apple we are he sees the clean shiny skin he has given us through his son. He sees his son, with whom he is well pleased.
YOU please him.
Live in that grace, I know I am!
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
When you pass through the waters I, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.
… Since you are precious and honored in my sight and because I LOVE YOU.”
Isaiah 43
