Over the past couple of weeks I feel like God has been putting loads of things on my heart. One of them is about being a women of God. Papa was teaching me some things about myself
and I felt that he'd want me to share and encourage you guys.
It started off when I was paying for something in a store and in my purse I keep a bit of paper
with this verse 'I will praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made' Psalm 139v14...
God was speaking something to my heart!
Now I think this verse gets played down, we hear it so often that we can get so used to it and
not explore the full power of God's words, we lose the full weight of that revelation.
Being a women can be hard, insecurities, searching for acceptance and the strive for perfection.
I've been there, I know what it's like but not only that, sometimes I still struggle with it.
Another verse which is also so powerful is Genesis 1v27 which says 'God created man in his own
image.' How awesome is that
! All that God is... beautiful, gentle, kind, loving, tender-hearted we are also. God made us and designed us. Psalm 139v13 'For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.' He knows you better than you know yourself, he knows your
heart.
Now our heart is central to who we are, that's why God tells us to guard our hearts in Proverbs 4v23.
It is the core of who we are... feminine. It also reflects Gods own heart.
One of the main issues all women face is, the majority of the time, to do with beauty. Every woman wants to feel beautiful. That is good thing, a wonderful desire and longing to display a characteristic of God... beauty! Beauty is the essence of God!
We are needed, as women, in the world to display and unveil beauty in a Godly way. Striving for beauty speaks that your heart is not at rest. Beauty is a natural expression and manifestation of your love for God. Beauty flows from a heart at rest. Outward beauty is hollow if it was not for the beauty of the heart.
Beauty is not only peaceful and gentle but also powerful and dangerous! It is dangerous because it matters. Beauty being dangerous may seem an odd statement, somethig you've maybe never thought of before but let me explain...
You are passionately loved by the God of the universe. You are also passionately hated by his enemy. Satan fears who you are, what you are, who you might become and your beauty! Because of who you are in Chrit, because you are beautiful, because you reflect Jesus, all of that is dangerous to the devil.
You see what I mean?
I once heard a saying that said this 'A women becomes beautiful when she knows that she's truly loved.'
That love, like no other, comes from God.
To be honest, the only opinion that matters, I mean really matters, is Gods.
No matter how you feel from day to day remember this, Gods love for you is immeasurable. You cannot be seperated from it! You are made in Gods image, you display his character, all of who he is. He knows you, how you feel but truth remains. You remain.... beautiful!
