So, I went with something different this week, one blog for Girls, another for guys, with some more gender-specific topics! I have some other people helping me out with this, so hopefully it goes well! As always, check out the features around the page, the voting poll to the right of this, and as always be sure to check out the Song and Bible verse at the end of the blog! If you haven't already I'd totally love you to check out the Facebook page- Finding that Foundation, by clicking -->!!HERE!!<-- Thanks a heap! Anyway, enough of this admin stuff. Let's get started.
1 Peter 3:3-4- "Don't be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry or beautiful clothes. You should be known for the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God"
The biggest, most obvious thing I see girl's struggle with so much, is self confidence. So many girls are SO harsh on themselves, judging themselves and just generally putting themselves down. I would not be joking if I said that convincing a girl she's pretty, skinny, kind, funny and just generally cool, MUST be one of the HARDEST jobs on earth! The bible says in Leviticus 9:18b- "...you shall Love your neighbour as you love yourself". How do you expect to love your neighbor, if you have no love for yourself? One of the coolest things you will ever see, is a Woman totally confident of who she is in God. Not to mention, you girls would go through so much less pain if you stopped lowering the standards on yourselves! So many girls end up going out with a guy simply because they want to feel loved and respected, so they lower and lower the standards they have on themselves until they'll settle for just about anyone. You girls are God's treasured possession!!!! He loves you SO much more than I could ever hope to explain to you.
Picture your body and who you are, as a temple, like in 1 Corinthians 6:19- Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own. God actually lives in you. He ADORES YOU! If you visited a church, would you be more likely to visit because its a cool building, or because you hear that the whole church is alive with God? Its the same for you. If a guy is ready to settle for you, regardless of who you really are on the inside, then what they say about you or feel towards you shouldn't matter, because they don't like you for who you really are. What really matters, is who you are on the inside. Don't wear the Labels society sticks on you! On the inside, you're all beautiful, amazing, incredible and totally covered in God's love. On the outside, it doesn't even matter. Don't settle for any less than what you're worth in God's eyes! You don't have to worry at all about what anybody else says or thinks about you! The only opinion that matters is God's! You are unique, you are yourself, and no one can change that. If anyone doesn't like something about you, that's their problem, don't change who you are for somebody else.
I hope you girls are able to put some of this into work in your life, and start to see yourselves through God's eyes! Cause you are totally loved!!! I mean, he did choose a woman to bring on the greatest miracle of all time, the birth of Jesus himself! You're all absolutely amazing!!! Be blessed.
You are for Me- Kari Jobe
Proverbs 14:1
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