"Dear Josh,
I need some help. I'm not confident or happy with myself at all. I see all these beautiful girls walking around and I just hate how I will never look like them. I sometimes cry myself to sleep and wish I had a purpose in this world. Please help me.
Sincerely, Hurting"
Dear Hurting,
First I want you to know that you are not alone. There are so many girls and women who feel just like you. They wake up each morning wishing they looked different...wishing they were someone else. It breaks my heart. We live in a culture that has distorted beauty and self-worth. Media blasts us with the message that if we don't look a certain way we are not worth as much as others. It's a lie that has caused us to connect outward "beauty" with purpose. Your purpose in this world is so much bigger than you could ever imagine and it has nothing to due with how you look, it has to do with your heart. You have a purpose...you are worth so much.
I need some help. I'm not confident or happy with myself at all. I see all these beautiful girls walking around and I just hate how I will never look like them. I sometimes cry myself to sleep and wish I had a purpose in this world. Please help me.
Sincerely, Hurting"
Dear Hurting,
First I want you to know that you are not alone. There are so many girls and women who feel just like you. They wake up each morning wishing they looked different...wishing they were someone else. It breaks my heart. We live in a culture that has distorted beauty and self-worth. Media blasts us with the message that if we don't look a certain way we are not worth as much as others. It's a lie that has caused us to connect outward "beauty" with purpose. Your purpose in this world is so much bigger than you could ever imagine and it has nothing to due with how you look, it has to do with your heart. You have a purpose...you are worth so much.
And the way you are told to look by our culture doesn't exist...
My child...you are beautiful! As a father of two beautiful little girls (I guess I write this from that perspective) I look at my little angels and my heart is filled with complete joy. I want to be with them, I want to play and laugh with them, I want to soak up everything about them. My life revolves around them. When they laugh, I laugh and when they cry, I cry. I am so completely in love with those little girls and it has absolutely nothing to do with how they look. I know your father too...not your earthly father, but your heavenly Father, and he delights in you, just as you are. He laughs when you laugh, and his heart breaks when your's does. He wants to be with you all the time. He is so completely in love with you and it has nothing to do with how you look. In fact in his eyes, its not that how you look doesn't matter...he sees you as his creation and he sees you as you are as beautiful.
Proverbs 31:30 say that outward charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting...it doesn't last. So while man continues to look at the meaningless (outward beauty) God continues to look at your heart (1 Samuel 16:7). It is that heart that is most important. In fact God even directs us not to be adorning on the outside but to be beautiful on the inside (1 Peter 3:3-4). It's as if God knew his beautiful kids would be tempted to buy into a lie that they are not beautiful. Don't believe the lies.
You are beautiful!
Josh
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