The Walrus Said.....

THE WALRUS SAID

"THE TIME HAS COME," THE WALRUS SAID, "TO TALK OF MANY THINGS: OF SHOES - AND SHIPS - AND SEALING-WAX - OF CABBAGES - AND KINGS AND WHY THE SEA IS BOILING HOT - AND WHETHER PIGS HAVE WINGS."

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I don't feel beautiful. This is something that in the past couple of years has become so apparent to me. My flesh despises itself, and in the past its been a problem. I live in a town filled with beautiful people, skinny, tan and gorgeous! This post, will emberass me, because its more personal then I would like to get. But I write it because I'm tired of hearing beautiful girls doubt themselves. Im tired of giving in to these thoughts in my head. I am guilty of sin in this arena. It's time for this to stop. It's time to turn to God. I have tried excessive exercise, I've done the starving, and the pills, and the diets, and when my obsessions take over, and fail I do the opposite. I eat crap, stop working out, give up, drown myself in evil self-pity, and I seek the most perfectly figured girls and try and compare myself to them. Its really humiliating, and ridiculous when i say it out loud, but this is reality, this is our culture, and this is our mindset. I hear countless amounts of this, more or less extreme, but its an obsession, and idol, and a foothold of the enemy. It's something I have gotten better at handling, but still struggle with. Somedays just walking in a public place I feel like the most disgusting thing in the room. So how do you deal with this? How do you make this go away? I dont know. What I do is recognize my self esteem and self confidence as feelings. Feelings that are merely a tool that can be manipulated and used by either side. In this case this is not God speaking, but the enemy. How you feel is not always the truth. Running off of feelings alone can lead to massive destruction. The truth of the matter is, you're beautiful. How do you know this?

Ephesians 2:10 says that "We are God's masterpiece." That means you are not average. You are not ordinary. You are one of a kind. When God created you He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted. You didn't just happen to get your personality. You didn't just accidentally get your nose, your skin color, your gifts or abilities. God designed you the way you are on purpose, for a purpose. The Apostle Paul said, "We should be to the praise of God's glory." In this passage, he's not talking about giving God praise with our words, although that is important. He's encouraging us to make our lives a living praise to Him! When you understand your value, and not only who you are but Whose you are, then your very existence will give God praise. When you are secure in who God made you, and you go out each day being your best, your life will give God praise. In other words, driving to work you're giving God praise. Mowing the lawn you're giving God praise. Going to the grocery store you're giving God praise. Walking through the mall you're giving God praise! Honor God today by accepting who you are. Make the decision to be the best you can be. Get up every morning and set your mind in the right direction by making positive affirmations over your life: "I'm the apple of God's eye. I'm His masterpiece. His fingerprints are all over me." If you will learn to accept and approve yourself and have a right opinion about who you are then you're going to rise higher. God is going to pour out His blessings and you will live that life of victory that God has in store! Understand that when God looks at you, when He looks into YOUR eyes, He sees the most beautiful of all creation. He could paint you for the rest of eternity and be satisfied in His work. You are beautiful to Him. And that is the truth.

In Genesis, God made the heavens and the earth, the birds and the trees the days and the night and the land and the seas,He stopped and He rested. He rested and said all that He made was good. Yet, something was missing… us. So He made man in the image and likeness of Himself. Man and woman were created to have fellowship with God. We weren't the afterthought in creation. We were the special finishing touches. Man, and WOMAN we're his Masterpieces, something that He could not make anymore beautiful. He was satisfied with His children, with You.

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. He says we are His workmanship (Zechariah 2:8).

Next time you look in the mirror, see what God sees and cherish your time on this earth. You are the most prized possession God has. You are His masterpiece. What matters most to Him is you. He loves you. Until you start to realize, how awfully imprtant that truth is, You'll be stuck in lying obsessions of image and beauty. Be confident in the beauty that God beholds unto you. Be confident and know the truth, that you could not be made better, you are God's masterpiece. Praise Him for that.

"Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised." (Proverbs 31:30)