Daughters,
You're body is a temple for the Spirit of the Living God. You are precious and honored in His sight. You were knit in your mother's womb, with intentional care. These aren't opinions, not "feel good" phrases, yet they're so hard to believe until you recognize them as truth.
Confidence effects everything. From your work ethic, to your relationships, to your very faith. If you believe you're worthless you're bound to act it out, it will fill your speech, and it will be the end of your joy.
The world is so good at telling us we're worthless, even unintentionally. We grow up wanting to be princesses, yet the kids on the playground won't stop making fun of our hair, or our name. We begin to believe we're out of the norm and in a very bad way. We hold those little things inside us for a very very long time, until one day we're grown ups with a lot of deep-rooted insecurities.
Those girls you make fun of for being "fake-baked" or super skinny or shopaholics are most likely the worst victims of deep-rooted insecurity.There are those other girls who grow up like goddess' to be worshiped and boys and girls alike will worship the body, and forget the person inside it. Men will goggle and women will even (but she's an idol just the same), but no matter how much they do she can still be the least confident woman in the world.
It's not always looks that we're insecure about. We're not the funniest, or the smartest. We aren't athletic or creative enough. This type of insecurity is sometimes the hardest to fight, because you have to become fake in order to be accepted.
A worldly woman seeks only to be accepted. She prides herself in fashions statements, harsh diets, attention seeking, striving for compliments, but never really feels satisfied. She's still holding on to what they said in pre-school about her hair, or in middle-school about her clothes, or even what her close friends said about being dumb.
So it affects our image of ourselves, or closeness with others (because if they know who we really are, they may not like us), and lastly -and most importantly- our faith. When we believe we're worthless, and there's not convincing us otherwise, scriptures like I mentioned earlier mean nothing, prayer is not longer effective (cause no One can fix this mess), and our relationship is only at a distance. Just like with people, we're afraid of what God might really think of us when He sees all our sin and failure and even insecurity.
Yet, God already knows it! The words He spoke are written before the feelings we feel were ever real, and He still means them. When we bank on our insecurities to tell us the truth, we'll end up in despair and deceit. The only way to be free is to let go of your stubbornness and believe. Only then can Psalm 139:14 mean a thing. Then we transform own minds and bind them to the will of Christ ( Rom 12:2, 1 Peter 1:13).
From now on every time I have a fit about what to wear, condemn myself for saying something stupid, feel self-pity, or hold back my prayers, I must begin to conform my mind to what He says about me. I'm a temple of the very Spirit of the Lord, I am not my own, but bought with a price. Not even my insecurities will change that, but He wants to make me holy as He is holy.
Go in peace
(Luke 7:50)
Chelsy.
You're body is a temple for the Spirit of the Living God. You are precious and honored in His sight. You were knit in your mother's womb, with intentional care. These aren't opinions, not "feel good" phrases, yet they're so hard to believe until you recognize them as truth.
Confidence effects everything. From your work ethic, to your relationships, to your very faith. If you believe you're worthless you're bound to act it out, it will fill your speech, and it will be the end of your joy.
The world is so good at telling us we're worthless, even unintentionally. We grow up wanting to be princesses, yet the kids on the playground won't stop making fun of our hair, or our name. We begin to believe we're out of the norm and in a very bad way. We hold those little things inside us for a very very long time, until one day we're grown ups with a lot of deep-rooted insecurities.
Those girls you make fun of for being "fake-baked" or super skinny or shopaholics are most likely the worst victims of deep-rooted insecurity.There are those other girls who grow up like goddess' to be worshiped and boys and girls alike will worship the body, and forget the person inside it. Men will goggle and women will even (but she's an idol just the same), but no matter how much they do she can still be the least confident woman in the world.
It's not always looks that we're insecure about. We're not the funniest, or the smartest. We aren't athletic or creative enough. This type of insecurity is sometimes the hardest to fight, because you have to become fake in order to be accepted.
A worldly woman seeks only to be accepted. She prides herself in fashions statements, harsh diets, attention seeking, striving for compliments, but never really feels satisfied. She's still holding on to what they said in pre-school about her hair, or in middle-school about her clothes, or even what her close friends said about being dumb.
So it affects our image of ourselves, or closeness with others (because if they know who we really are, they may not like us), and lastly -and most importantly- our faith. When we believe we're worthless, and there's not convincing us otherwise, scriptures like I mentioned earlier mean nothing, prayer is not longer effective (cause no One can fix this mess), and our relationship is only at a distance. Just like with people, we're afraid of what God might really think of us when He sees all our sin and failure and even insecurity.
Yet, God already knows it! The words He spoke are written before the feelings we feel were ever real, and He still means them. When we bank on our insecurities to tell us the truth, we'll end up in despair and deceit. The only way to be free is to let go of your stubbornness and believe. Only then can Psalm 139:14 mean a thing. Then we transform own minds and bind them to the will of Christ ( Rom 12:2, 1 Peter 1:13).
From now on every time I have a fit about what to wear, condemn myself for saying something stupid, feel self-pity, or hold back my prayers, I must begin to conform my mind to what He says about me. I'm a temple of the very Spirit of the Lord, I am not my own, but bought with a price. Not even my insecurities will change that, but He wants to make me holy as He is holy.
Go in peace
(Luke 7:50)
Chelsy.
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