My sister tells a hilarious story. One day when my niece was younger, my sister decided to take a nap before she had to run errands. When she woke up from her nap, she packed up the car and her daughter and headed out. She spent several hours going from store to store. When she got home, she happened to glance in the mirror. To her astonishment, her face was covered with stickers.
She had been out all afternoon in public with stickers all over her face. My niece had stuck them to her face while she was sleeping. Isn’t it funny that she didn’t notice? She went about her day and did whatever she needed to do without giving her appearance a second thought. If someone would have pointed them out, she would have been embarrassed and would have quickly removed them.
This reminds me of Adam and Eve. They didn’t realize they were naked until they interacted with the serpent. He made them feel embarrassment. He convinced them to hate their appearances and the life God had created for them.
Do you look at yourself through the eyes of this world or social media? As Christians, we are supposed to look at ourselves the way God sees us. By doing so, we can gain confidence that we have a purpose.
“9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1 John 1: 9-10
So, if God loves us enough to send His son to die for us, and that means there isn’t any one thing, person, situation or circumstance that can change that fact, why are we so hard on ourselves? Why do we focus on the bad things about ourselves, instead of God’s love for us?
I don’t know about you, but I would certainly like to see myself the way God sees me. If I look to this world for my confidence, I will never measure up. However, I take my confidence in knowing that, to God, I am always more than enough.
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