Perfectly Imperfect

Welcome to my very first post, ladies (and gentlemen, if you will.) We are living in a world where it is so easy to lose our identity before we have even found it. We are bombarded with people telling us who to be, what to be, how to look, how to walk, how to eat, what to eat and literally, the list goes on. It is hard to be an individual in a society that pulls you in so many different directions that parts of you begin to rip off; parts that make you unique, parts that separate you from everybody else in this world.

How about a breath of fresh air? Who you are is exactly who God had intended you to be... right now, right here at this exact moment. Is that not refreshing? I know I felt a peace come over me when I typed that. God had not created you to imitate those around you. He did not create you to style your hair a certain way, or to wear the latest trends; God designed you in a very specific way. Ever heard the saying ‘God broke the mold when He made you’? God is the mold He used to create us. The same God who created the beauty of the starry night created you...Just let that sink in. 

We are so obsessed with being who society tells us to be. We idolize this image of what PERFECT looks like, when little do we know that perfection is who we see staring back at us in the mirror. A KIND OF PERFECTION THAT LIVES UP TO GOD’S STANDARDS. Every hump, every bump, every dimple in your thigh, every blemish on your face and every curl in your hair is exactly where God had intended for it to be. Are we not blessed to have a God who looks at our hearts rather than our outer appearance? All God wants, and all that Jesus died for, was to perfect our hearts. 

We need to stop looking at our flaws as imperfections but rather look at them through the eyes of our Father because all He sees is perfection and beauty and royalty. This world's idea of beauty is nothing more than a Photoshop edit. The media is one of Satan’s greatest weapons; it will have you changing that which God created to make you stand out. This world has poisoned our brains to such severity that women are nipping and tucking to please this world’s sinful desires. 

Believe me, if you were meant to have silicon balloons planted anywhere in your body, God PROBABLY would have inserted them back in the Garden of Eden. We have got to stop poisoning our women with the idea that if there is something they do not like about themselves, they should cut it off! We need to learn to accept that which we do not like and be humbled by the fact that our God already sees perfection.

1 Peter 3:3-4

3 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— 4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.