Born Different

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.  George Macdonald

Have you ever wanted to look different from the way you are?  Too many times I think we want to look different and in the process we want to look like someone else.  Why?  We are surrounded by magazines, television, books and any number of sources that place great importance on looking different from the way we do. 

If we depend on the world to define who we are and what we look like, we will pursue that until we die.  When God created each of us, He did so with a purpose in mind. You are not an afterthought or a mistake.  The way you look is not a mistake either.  God doesn’t look at the outer shell of who we are to determine if we are worthy.  He looks at our heart.

We need to learn how to give up what the world thinks we should look like and worry more about what God thinks.  If God created each of us with a purpose in mind, don’t you think He created you with the same care he did when he created Miss America, Miss Georgia or any other beauty queen or super model the world accepts as beautiful. 

When we decide we are not good enough for the world to accept us, we are basically saying that we are not happy with the way God created us.  Accept the person God created you to be.  You are beautiful and you don’t need the world to define who you are in God’s eyes. He created you as a work of art.  You are a priceless treasure in His eyes.  Don’t let anyone take that away from you.  We are each born different and that is what makes us the same. He created you in His image.  There is nothing more beautiful than that.

Prayer for the Day: Heavenly Father, You created me in Your image.  Each person on earth is different.  There is not one of us who is the same.  Your creation of each person is unique.  Help us to see that we are beautiful in Your eyes.  I see so many young people who are concerned about self-image when each of them was created in Your image.  There is nothing more beautiful than that.   

       

Scripture: Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”  So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:26-27