FEELING LIKE UGLY BETTY

You may feel like the girl who no one thinks is attractive… you never seem to catch the eye of men whether in school or at work. All your girlfriends are getting picked up by fancy cars, taken out to romantic getaways over the weekend, bought for expensive gifts and you feel as though you are just a spectator, saying to yourself after all they are way prettier than I am so they deserve it.

And all the while God is like ..WAIT..WHAT?

I created you in my own image and likeness…You are my masterpiece (Ephesians 2 :10).

You are so precious to me and you are bought at a price; not of corruptible like gold and silver but of the precious blood of Jesus. (1 Peter 1:18).

When are you going to stop looking at yourself as the world sees you and start looking at yourself as I see you?

 Why are you getting your value from what world says or thinks about you?

 The world didn’t create you, I did and you are so valuable to me that I had to die for you on the cross.

Your worth and value is NOT in dating the cutest guy on campus or the richest dude at the workplace, just so that all your girlfriends and peers can be impressed and compliment you on how fine he is or how loaded he is.

Your worth and value is in Christ and Christ alone- not in how many heads you turn when you enter a room or whether your girlfriends/bff  thinks you’re pretty enough to be with a certain type of man. Are you letting the opinions of the world dictate to you who you are or are you letting the Word of God define you?

Colossians 2:10 says that you are complete in Jesus, who is the head of all principality and power. So girl, if no one notices you or asks you out like everyone else is, I want to you to repeat this scripture out loudly with your mouth. The Word of God is not like the words of men; it contains power and it’s a sword that we use to fight back those feelings or ideas that creep into our minds and hearts ... that tell us we ain’t good enough. I have come to realize that I can’t afford to just sit back and let the enemy fill my mind with his lies and his junk- I need to fight back , and we fight back with the speaking out the word of God. Just like Jesus did when tempted by Satan – he fought back with scripture saying “IT IS WRITTEN”.

 Now am not saying that our go around looking sloppy and  don’t make your hair, or you avoid wearing some cute clothes- all am saying is that we need to put our confidence in God alone not even in our outward appearance or how many compliments we get from people.

Paul said in Phillipians 3 :3  For we [Christians] are the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit and by the Spirit of God and exult and glory and pride ourselves in Jesus Christ, and put no confidence or dependence [on what we are] in the flesh and on outward privileges and physical advantages and external appearances. 

Our glory and our pride is not in how we look, how many  dudes are attracted to us, what designer labels we wear, how many degrees we’ve accumulated, our accomplishments, how many followers you get on social media or how sexy and ripped your body is – nope! Our pride and glory is in Christ; all these other things will fade away but Christ and His love is eternal (forever!)

So here is to taking our eyes off ourselves and the standards of this world (and who thinks we are pretty or not pretty enough) and putting your eyes back on Jesus – and seeing yourself as Christ sees you, period!!

 No more trying to compare yourself with the women on your instagram feed, reality shows or others around us, but to be who God created you to and to go after Jesus, pursuing the call of God over your life and being used by Him to bring all glory to God.