You make beautiful things. You make beautiful things out of dust.
You make beautiful things. You make beautiful things out of us.
Gungor
During the month in Thailand people back home, my teammates, and my squad mates kept telling me I was beautiful. Then about one and a half weeks in, my teammate Cory sent Team I-61 an email with words for each person. Behind my name it said this: beautiful, attractive, desirable, worth the fight.
Hmmm….maybe the Lord was trying to tell me the something. I went to my team leader for the month, Melissa. Our conversation went something like this:
- Me: I think God might be trying to tell me something. People keep telling me I’m beautiful and Cory just sent us all these great words and one of mine was the word beautiful and I’m trying to figure out what God is trying to say.
- Melissa (with a quizzical look at me): Well, do you think you’re beautiful?
- Me: Well…I don’t think I’m ugly.
- Melissa: I don’t think that’s the point, Ginny.
The conversation was comical, but it also made me think. That night at worship, the Lord hit me with the first revelation of why He kept bringing up the word beautiful. He is answering my prayer. The one main goal for my life is for people to look at me and see Jesus. People are responding to the good work the Lord is doing in me. They are responding to His beauty inside me. At this revelation, I bowed my head in worship and thanksgiving.
Later on that week as I was journaling about what the Lord was teaching me in Thailand I thought about those words Cory gave me. I asked myself if I really believed them and here is what I wrote:
God, you are beautiful! And I am made in your image. I am beautiful.
I stopped writing for a minute and reflected on these words. Then God hit me with the second revelation.
Ginny, just as you are beautiful, desirable, attractive, and worth the fight so are the women I have put into your path. They are worth it! Each woman on Bangla Road is worth it.
This is so true. These women are beautiful, attractive, desirable and worth the fight.
The Lord’s revelations are perfect and I’m thankful for the time we had on Bangla Road and for the ministry of SHE. I am thankful that He is continually making me beautiful. I’m thankful that He knows each woman on Bangla by name and that He created them in beauty.
As we continue on to Cambodia. I will keep these women in my heart…I will remember that they are beautiful and that they are worth it. They are worth the fight.
