Wonderfully Made

I think today it's so hard for not only girls but guys to look in the mirror and like what they see. With the way society is protraying that we should look it's difficult really to except the fact that were are "wonderfully made"

Pslam 139: 13-14
For you God created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mohers womb. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Do you believe what this scripture says. I think its so easy to look around and think we are missing out, that God has made everyone else wonderfully made except for you. One of the biggest problems is that we compare ourselves to everyone else and we allow the enemy to fill our minds with a bunch of lies. If we allow those lies to consume our minds on a daily basis we never be able to except ourselves for how God made us. I think we all forget that God made us just the way he wanted to. I often forget to just praise God for things that we don't even realize we have the things we take for granted. If the enemy can fill our minds and make us believe this lie that we aren't good enough and not pretty enough he is taking control of this area of our lives. I have come up with 3 ways that I tell our teenagers to help with this battle.

The K.E.Y. to believing you are "Wonderfully Made"

Know - who you are in God

Don't put on masks and be who everyone else wants you to be. I think having a solid foundation in our relationship with God is so important because we are able to find out who we are in God and see the positives in the way He has made us. Don't let others dictate your worth. When we do that we see ourselves through others eyes and not our own. The world makes us believe we need to be this perfect flawless image. In all reality that isn't true. In the end none of the external things will matter they will all fad away and the thing that matters the most is whats on the inside. The things that are internal last forever!

Endure - what the world's portraying about self image

I think we need to endure the pressures of being perfect all the time, like being Skinny and having the best clothes. Focus on the things that matter the most, like your relationship with God. Try to make a list of the positive things about yourself, maybe even the gifts that God has given you. We often look at how gifted we think everyone else is and forget that we have areas in our lives where were gifted too. Focus on those things.

Yield - to stop believing the lies

2 Cor. 10:5 talks about taking every thought captive under the obedience of God.

Recognize that the enemy is out there destroying lives in so many ways. One of the greatest ways he is destroying is through our minds. It all starts there. On the outside we may put on a mask and act like everythings ok, but so often so many of us really don't like who we are when we look in the mirror. You can change that today. I believe it's a process, but with the help of God and prayer you will have the strength to believe that you are "wonderfully made"
Don't believe the lies. Believe that God made you just the way He wanted to, and He wants you to take the focus off yourself and others and out it on Him and His purpose for your life. You are special, you are unique, you are one of a kind. You are God's child and He loves you for you. You are WONDERFULLY MADE!!!!

Phil. 4:13
I can do ALL things through Him who gives you strength