You Are Beautiful
How many ways are there to tell someone they’re easy on the eyes?
“You’re pretty…”
“You make my heart skip a beat!”
“HOLYCRAPYOURESOFREAKINGHOT!!”
I’d bet there are a million…at least. And if there are a million ways to tell someone they’re good lookin’, it only makes sense that there are (at least) a million ways in which to be beautiful. If that is indeed the case, why do so many of us lack the willingness to witness our own internal and eternal beauty?
It’s said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. While simple (and poetic), this phrase is the root reason each of us should love and feel good about ourselves. Beauty is relative to that which we are beholden to, so that if, as Christians, we believe we were created by God as an image pleasing to Him, He must find us beautiful, right? If so, then each of us, whether outwardly beautiful or internally gorgeous (or even blessed enough to be in possession of both qualities), is uniquely and purposefully beautiful to the One who breathed sweet breath in to our lungs. And considering we each are constant subjects to self-doubt, jealousy, and backwards thinking when considering the beauty of another, it makes little to no sense to rest our self-confidence in the wayward opinions of other humans. So if a person finds reason to call us ugly and do so with a malice tongue, then they are not worthy of the worry we allow them to produce.
Whether you’re a Christian or not, the fact that you’re breathing as you’re reading this proves you house immense value within the human life you possess. As a human life, your value proves your worth in the very essence of its definition. And your beauty comes from the worth you have held within your soul your entire life. I don’t care what you’ve been told or how severely you’ve been put down before. Allow yourself to put that away now. You are beautiful and that’s because you are worth something. Your worth is in the breath you breathe and in the beauty you place in this world. Internal or external, shining or hidden, you inherently posses the beauty you wish to have. It’s there. It just needs to be recognized and appreciated.
You are beautiful. I see it. Won’t you?
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Song of Solomon 4:7 is one of my favorites:
You are beautiful my darling, and there is nothing at all wrong with you.
Yes, yes, yes.
I can honestly say that verse pulled me through more than self-image struggles. It says my God sees me. He sees us.
AH!
aww shucks!! thanks..hahaha
I agree, but considering most of are controlled by society and media you might need to repeat this one a couple of times.
“your worth is in the breath you breathe and in the beauty you place in this world” words I needed to hear tonight more than words can say. Thank you.
thank you for your words! they are always an encouragement.
i was reminded of this beauty of a quote from C.S. Lewis while reading this post.
“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’s thoughts, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.”