Today’s Devotional: You are beautiful
Do you think that you are beautiful?
Despite our pride, our lusts, our anger and disobedience, God sees us as beautiful. To be honest, I have a hard time with this aspect of God’s nature. In some ways, to me it’d make more sense to me if God wasn’t able to look past our sins.
The devotional below comes from Today. It focuses on Matthew 6:25-34 in which Jesus tells us about God’s care for the plants of the field. Jesus reminds us that if God is showering this much attention on flowers, He’s spending far more energy thinking about us, the “crown of his creation:”
In todays verses Jesus points to the magnificence of flowers: Not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. So if this is how God shows care for a flower, how much more does our Father in heaven care for us humans, the crown of his creation? As we might examine the beauty and intricacies of a flower, this is how God looks at us! We do not have to worry about meeting some artificial or worldly standard of beauty. We are all precious in Gods sight.
In addition, because God provides so beautifully for us all, we can bloom where we are planted. Some flowers last just a short time; others, like the petunias in my garden, bloom until the first frost of autumn arrives. God, who has created each of us as unique individuals and redeemed us through the blood of his Son, enables us to show forth his love, compassion, glory, and life. Some of us may have a short time, and others may have a much longer time to bloom. But we all can display the beauty of Gods love and care because God himself sustains us.
Read the rest of the devotional at thisistoday.net.
Do you find it hard to grasp that God thinks you’re beautiful? How have you seen God care for you recently?
This is powerful, “bloom were you are at”. God sees us as his price posessions, must we not glory in that. Knowing how messed up we get sometimes. Be that as it may, God loves and cares for us more than we can possible imagine.
I love this. Young ladies today work so hard to attain a certain “perfection”. But God created an entire world full of DIFFERENT flowers. We are not all roses. But I think the daisies and the buttercups are every bit as beautiful. Put us all together and God has created an entire bouquet. Each of us is unique, but beautiful in His sight! Thank you for this wonderful word today
I was always called names as a small child when I was growing up. I was not very attractive. I was very skinny with pretruding teeth in the front from where I aways had my thumb in my mouth. I always worked very hard to make myself look better. One day while I was in the store with my mother a man came up and stared into my eyes. He told my mom that he could see into my soul and that I would become more beautiful with age. I will never forget that and I truly believe that God has put within me a beautiful soul and for that I am greatful I can look upon the most beatiful person, but if they don’t possess a gentle spirit they are so ugly to me.
My life is fearfully and wonderfully made , because of that iam very proud with what iam , for GOD chosen my heart to be his temple , comparing the greatness of JEHOVHA and my the size of my heart , it’s amazing.
My life is fearfully and wonderfully made , because of that iam very proud with what iam , for GOD chosen my heart to be his temple , comparing the greatness of JEHOVHA and the size of my heart , it’s amazing