You try and fit in.
You try and meet the expectations that the world sets....skinny....beautiful....plays this....does that....knows this fact....knows this person.
You try to be that person that no one can touch.....invincible....brave; nothing can get you down.
And you fail.
Time and time again....you fail.
Beloved, hear me when I say this: God never made you to look like everyone else, walk like everyone else, talk like everyone else.
He didn't make you out of a mold of what everyone else expects.
He didn't give you unique characteristics and talents just to ignore them.
YOU are who He made; as you are!
So you don't fit in with the rest of the world.
So you can't seem to ever be "good enough."
So you aren't invincible.
You were never made to be those things anyway....
You were made to stand out as a light for Christ with your own unique talents.
You were made to be broken so God could strengthen you when you seek Him.
You were made to look, walk, and talk like Christ.
He is the only one you should be seeking after to be like!
So throw away that beauty magazine.
Stop trying to please people, because chances are, no matter what you do, you are going to displease someone.
Don't look out at the world with all it's standards and expectations.
Look up and in!
God has a great plan for you; just as you are. YOU are made in the image of God, not in the image of the "cool" kids down the street; not in the image of the model on the cover of that magazine; not in the image of your parents or friends. He made you in His image.
You shine because God made you.
You shine because you are not a copy.
You shine because you are perfect in God's eyes.
You shine because YOU. ARE. ENOUGH!
"You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it."
Psalm 139:13-14
