I just went and bought donuts. I like them. That's irrelevant....except that while I was waiting to pay for my two donuts, I glanced at the magazines around the register.
This is what I want you to hear. Are you ready?
YOU ARE PERFECT JUST LIKE YOU ARE!
Did you hear that? It's a message that you don't hear often.......or maybe never. And I think it's one that you need to hear more.
Now let's be clear. We all sin. We all screw up. The Bible is clear that none of us are without fault.
BUT the Bible is also very very clear that God made you. Not only that, but he created you with a purpose. No one but you can live the life that God has called you to.
Think of it this way. You're an engineer (the kind that designs things not the train kind). Your job is create a gizmo called a "Splitzerslamer" that will do this one really cool thing that'll make the whole factory work better. Now being a good engineer you know that the only thing that's going to really work is the Splitzerslamer.......you can't put in a Gniftygloob and have it work. The Gniftygloob is shiny and pretty looking though. Who wouldn't want to have a Gniftygloob in their factory? But the Splitzerslamer is the only thing that'll fit.
Here's what happens. We're told all the time that we're not pretty enough, athletic enough, smart enough, fast enough, sleek enough, we're not SOMETHING enough. The problem with that thinking is that......who is? God tells us that no one is perfect. So who is that we're comparing ourselves to? It's all an illusion.
I talk a lot about God having a purpose for your life. Do you know why? Because everywhere else you are being told that the only purpose you have is being like someone else. We are all so focused on trying to be something that we are not, that we've lost touch with what God wants for our lives.
In God's eyes you are a Perfect 10. Just like you are. With your freckles, zits, greesy hair, no hair, unibrow, whatever! You are You and that's beautiful.
Dove recently made this cool video. "No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted"
1 comment:
nice talk about this yesterday. everything you said is the real truth for everyone..and nobody can deny that they have not wanted to have something that somebody else had. i even admitted it. great new post for the thoughts blog! i want to start trying harder to hear God's voice and what his plan for my life is. one thing you said really got me.."you won't die until the plan that God has given you is completed"
by the way that video explains a lot..it should be a commercial to show people what these companies really are like. awesome video and the background music was cute!
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