This whole week God has been putting women’s ministry on my heart. I’m not sure why but I feel like He wants me to minister to women and let them know that they are loved.
I think He wants me to reach out to women who are like me. Who are afraid of not being perfect all the time and living up to the unattainable standards that society has set up.
Women like me who have tried starving themselves to be like the Photoshopped and plastic images in the magazines and movies. I never got close to not eating completely, but I would limit the amount I would eat in fears of being fat and that other’s would view me as being a pig. I still have a hard time eating in front of others or in public places because this fear is still in me. But God has taught me that I don’t need to starve myself to be beautiful, He has already made me beautiful and perfect. And now He wants me to use this new found knowledge to give to other women and heal their hearts.
Women like me who are afraid of making mistakes because everything around us tells us to be perfect. Keep the perfect home, wear the perfect clothes and have the perfect family. To show them that we are perfect, our flaws are our perfection! Jesus didn’t make us this way to make us hate ourselves. He loves us for who we are and that we are perfect and beautiful in His eyes.
Women like me who never felt like they are good enough or strong enough. Because of Jesus and His love for us we are good enough and strong enough. We just need to have faith that He will be our strength.
To show women like me that He loves us for us and that He has a heart for women. I never knew that He has a heart for women specifically. I’m still learning what this means and I know that the race will show me how Jesus’s heart goes out to his beautiful daughters. And I know that He wants to use the race to teach me how I can empower the women around me and that He has a special place in His heart for them.
I think that Jesus wants us to start building each other up instead of tearing each other down. It’s time for everything to stop being a competition and start viewing ourselves and the women around us as beautiful sisters, moms, daughters, grandmothers, aunts and best friends that we are. Would you please join me in praying about doing this?
