I am also doing a devotional every morning called, Daily steps for God Chicks....the author challenged us to stop hating what we see in the mirror....and our daily step for the day was to look at ourselves and tell ourselves that we're beautiful, when I did this I got extremely emotional- looking myself square in the face and saying- you are a beloved daughter of Christ, He created your body specifically the way it is, You, Rachel, are no mistake....You are stunning and magnificent.
A thought just crossed my mind. God is the creator of everything, and I believe and know that He created all of us specifically and He made no mistakes. I think about when I make things, when I draw a piece, or paint on a canvas, or make a ring band out of brass, or etch a zinc plate and print it....I am proud and empowered by the fact that my hands and my heart made something. I love whatever I made and I call it my own.
God does the same with us, He created us. He made no mistakes, every part of our bodies and the way its shaped is purposeful and has significance. I wonder how much it hurts God, when I look at myself in the mirror and am horrified. How I critique my body in my head and physically manipulate my stomach in hopes that one day it will acutally lay flat.
My insides cringe at the thought of someone extremely intimately close to me, like my mom or my best friend- looking at one of my pieces of art work, something that I would classify as a masterpiece....and taking it and trying to change it. Saying how its not good enough and they wished it looked like another one of my pieces or someone else's work. It makes me sick, and all today I did these things.
God is such a beautiful artist, His work is breathe-taking....why do you think people try to capture images of landscapes or paint the delicacies of a woman's face.... God created all of that. He is awesome and we critique him. We covet other people's abilities, looks, styles. That has to make God's insides cringe and his heart ache.
If anybody is reading this, then lets try something new this week....whenever we feel the enemy is creeping in and yelling lies into our heads saying- you're too fat, you need new clothes, you're a disappointment, your body is disgusting, count your calories and work out- then you'll feel more whole and your life will be better.... lets walk in the authority that Christ gave us to trample on snakes and throw out lies, lets think about God and his creation and worship him for every detail we usually pick at.
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