It’s funny because I have been thinking through this blog for a while and today I decided that I needed to write it. When I opened my e-mail I received a blog update from Kyla, my co-squad leader for the P squad, that was titled Mirror Mirror. I guess at this time of the year we all are a little more conscious of our image. How much we are eating, how much we should STOP eating, how much we exercise or should I say START exercising!
I was getting ready one morning while visiting a friend and in the bathroom were two mirrors. One was a mirror above the sink and the other was a full length mirror. What was strange was that the image in each mirror changed just slightly. Yes, it was me. But I kind of felt like I was in a fun house. One mirror bunched me up a bit and the other elongated me. I decided to look at the elongated version of me because I liked it better:)
A couple days later I was shopping and every store I went into had mirrors. Each mirror made me look different. Sometimes it was the lighting and other times it was how the mirrors were beveled. Sometimes I would look at the image in the mirror and it would cause my face to squinch up in disgust.
I feel like this happens with pictures at times, also. I look at pictures that I’m angled wrong or have some ridiculous look on my face (I tend to like making ridiculous faces for pictures:)!!!) and I immediately want to delete it. Every once in a while there is one great picture with great lighting or the perfect ridiculous face and I immediately change my Facebook profile picture!!!
How we see ourselves determines so much in our lives. If we don’t like what we see in the mirror in front of us, it reflects in all areas of our lives. Insecurities mount and they pour forth in diabolical misery. We crumble on the inside while trying to put on a brave face. We need to remember that we are God’s creation. We are wonderfully made, we are not garbage. It is sometimes easier to believe the lie that we are ugly rather than the truth, that God made us each beautiful…in HIS image.
If you struggle with this you should probably meditate on Psalm 139:13-16, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Another cause of this shame that is heaped on us, is that we don’t see ourselves, who we really are, correctly. For a reminder of who you are in Christ click here and read through a list of who the Word of God says you are. When you daily remind yourself that you are royalty, a son or daughter of the Most High God, and the reward of the suffering of Jesus Christ it will change you from the inside out!!!
