Beauty: Being Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, By Haley B.

Beauty

Being Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

By Haley B.

My first post on my first Web magazine...how exciting is that! I will start off with saying that I personally struggled with my physical appearance for a long time, but God has brought me out of that, because I know that I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Have you ever had a question about what GOD thinks of you instead of the world? Well, the answer lies in Psalm 139, but specifically in verse 14. God has said that we are “…fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thy works that my soul knoweth well.” God thinks the WORLD of us and He has fearfully and wonderfully made us! His works are marvelous so that makes US marvelous because we are His works! How awesome is it to know that!

Now, I’m not going to put the WHOLE chapter of Psalm 139 on here, but God tells us who we are in that whole chapter. He tells us that He “…formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.” God formed us when we were not even babies inside of our mom’s! Only OUR GOD can do that! His thoughts are also humungous for us! In verses 17 & 18, it says, “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand…” God’s thoughts are awesome and there is a large sum of them towards us, so shouldn’t we feel that way ourselves?

But we don’t, because we want the other girls in our classes to like us, and to think we’re popular, just like they are. We want the cute boy to maybe ask us for our number so we can try to be boyfriend and girlfriend one day. We shape ourselves to be this person that isn’t us so that the world can like us. That is not who God created us to be! The world is full of lies such as: you should be skinnier, your hair needs to be shinier, your skin needs to be clearer, your nose is too big, your lips are shaped funny, or some other kind of messed up comment about our physical appearance.

God loves you for you and He created you in His image, not of the world's. You are beautiful because God made you that way!