Beauty

In the eye of the beholder

 

 

Somewhere in time, this week, I have been people watching.  At times, what I observed has broken my heart.  I have noticed people who aren’t proud of their age, their shape or even their gender. When I see this, I realize there are two things going on. The first problem is we think God made a mistake and second, we live in a culture that tries to fit each of us into some predetermined mold. 

I hope to set us free.  First, God doesn’t make mistakes.  God made you unique; you aren’t supposed to look like anybody else.  God didn’t make each of us from the same mold, so why are we trying to fit into one now. 

Psalm 139:14

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁴ I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

If you ever wonder where I get my ideas – well usually, I’m preaching to the mirror.

When I was younger, I was very thin. People used to make jokes about me running around in the shower to get wet.  Even then, when I looked at myself, I saw imperfections.  I thought God needed to make me taller. He needed to give me a flat stomach, not a little pooch.  I needed my hair to be light blond and on and on it goes.  Was there anything wrong with me – not really.  I was a hand crafted original and I didn’t even know it.  

Somewhere along the way we lost sight of what beauty really is.  We let media determine what is beautiful.  What we see in magazines or on TV is someone’s idea of beauty.  If you have done something worthy of a magazine cover, but they don’t think you are perfect enough, they will retouch your picture and take away your wrinkles and scars. They may even make extra weight is miraculously disappear. 

Why is this necessary?  Wrinkles and scars are evidence of life. Wrinkles can be proof of wisdom earned from years of living.  Scars are proof of trials overcome.   Extra weight, in many cases, can be a sign of plenty and a sign of good times.  Why do we shy away from such things? Why don’t we showcase and celebrate this?  I don’t understand.

To God, the physical things, height, weight, skin color are not as important as the points of character we display.  He doesn’t even care if we are brilliant, or if we struggle.  He cares that we are honest and we display integrity in everything we do. He wants us show compassion to the needy, strength to the week and love to the hopeless.  God standards are what we should strive for.

If we really think about it, God is the one we need to get approval from and He loved us enough to die for us.  We really are something special.

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