Insecurities.
We all have them, we’d be lying if we said we didn’t.
Whether its our outward appearances we hate so much, or our inward emotions and feelings we wish we didn’t have, there is always something that keeps us from loving ourselves completely and truly.
These past nine months so many insecurities were revealed to me that I didn’t even know I had.
They only flared when I came to Asia, living around people who are completely tiny, places where their extra large clothing is really your small, and always having someone grab the parts of your body that you already didn’t like.
Insecurities, in my opinion, is the thing that keeps up from being our true selves, from being the people that God created us to be.
Read Psalm 139:13-15.
“For you formed my inward parts. You knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfuly and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.”
These verses alone prove that God does not make junk. He made me the way He wanted me to look and He made you the way He wanted you to look.
You were made in God’s image.
He knitted you together in perfection.
You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
For a long time, and even now, I really struggled with the way that God made me.
I told myself that I would never be pretty, would never have a good body, would never have whatever it was that made a person beautiful.
I told myself that God messed up on one of His unique creations.
I used to want so many things.
Freckles, blue eyes, blonde hair, smaller nose, thinner eyebrows.
It was a long time before I realized that God made me without these things for a reason.
He made me with brown hair, dark and thick eyebrows, and a freckle-less face.
And I am okay with that.
Actually, I am happy with that.
I embraced the color of my wild hair until I actually started to like it. I learned how to manage and tame my eyebrows. And frankly, freckles just aren’t my thing anymore.
God made me the way He wanted me to look, so why would I go off wishing that I looked like someone else?
If we are constantly looking at ourselves thinking about what we’d change, we are saying God’s creation isn’t good and it isn’t beautiful.
God made the stars, the beautiful sunset, the mountains, the ocean.
He made so many beautiful things and He made you.
You are just as beautiful if not more than the prettiest sunset you have ever laid your eyes on, you are more beautiful than the many stars that you try and count at night.
You were made perfectly in the image of our Father.
Here’s my challenge for you.
If you struggle with any form of insecurities, I want to challenge you to try these things.
1.) Pray that you will see yourself the way that God sees you because to Him you are magnificent.
2.) Write Bible verses on your mirror so that every time you see yourself you also see the words that God speaks over you.
3.) Every time you say or think one bad thing about yourself, think of three more things that you love about yourself.
Don’t ever forget your worth and don’t ever forget who you are.
You are beautiful.
