I'm too fat. I'm too thin. I wish I was taller. I hate being so tall. I wish I didn't have to wear glasses. I hate my hair. My ears are too big. My stomach pokes out. My hands are too small. My hands are too big. My feet are shaped funny. I can't stand the color of my eyes. My knuckles are too big. My fingernails aren't shaped right. I wish I had long eyelashes. My teeth are ugly. I hate my voice. I can't carry a tune at all. I can't stand the way a picture looks after I'm the one who painted it. I'm stupid. I'm not worth anything. I don't matter.
How many times have you said something, anything along those lines? You know, it occurred to me last night that every single time we critique ourselves we are saying that what God has created isn't good enough. We are saying that the very hands He used to make us are broken and worthless. With every jab we make about ourselves we are saying that we aren't important to Him. God doesn't make mistakes. We were each created specifically for a special and perfect purpose. He created us short, tall, skinny, fat, big ears, little ears, long eyelashes, short eyelashes, thick hair, thin hair, brown eyes, blue eyes... We are each a treasure in the arms of Christ! Maybe it's time we start living like it!!
"Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God — you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration — what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day." Psalm 139:13-16 (MSG)
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