Day 1 "You Are Beautiful"
Wholesome Beauty
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Good Morning Beauties!
Welcome to the first day of your journey! You’ve prepared, you’ve prayed, and you’re ready. Now I want you to open your mind and heart, and be willing to accept God’s revelations of truth. It’s okay to admit you’ve been deceived by the enemy and are believing lies. There’s no shame in it. We’ve all struggled with deception. The good news is you are free to release the lies and replace them with truth.
Let’s talk about beauty. What does that word mean? How would you define it or describe it to a friend? What does it personally mean to you? Where did those beliefs originate? Please use your journal to write down your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Selah.
When you first think about the word beauty, do you immediately think of physical beauty? Most of us do. It takes time and maturity to see true beauty as an internal expression of the whole person. I’ve found so many of us are still wounded by negative experiences in our childhood about our physical beauty. We’ve carried around the negative talk all these years.
As an example, I’ll never forget when a classmate in 6th grade told me while we were in the gymnasium, “You better watch out, your thighs are looking a little big.” From that very moment on, I hated my thighs for decades! She meant no harm, but the enemy used an innocent statement and tried to destroy a little bit of my self esteem with it.
Sometimes, physical beauty can be turned by the enemy into something destructive. I can think of plenty of intelligent women who were only seen for their beauty; therefore, they were not taken seriously or given opportunities in which they were qualified.
We can’t discuss physical beauty without mentioning the completely false world we live in where already thin models are airbrushed into even thinner magazine covers with every imperfection corrected. That’s just the magazines! What about everyday people on social media? We only post the perfect glances of our anything but perfect lives. It’s all a mirage.
So, what is real beauty? Let’s go to the source, the creator of all beauty. We can find truth in God’s Word. I encourage you to look in your Bible’s concordance and read as many scriptures as you can with the words beauty and beautiful. You will begin to see and believe what true beauty is from God’s perspective.
When you know what it is, you can then apply it to yourself and believe YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. If you have trouble believing it, that’s when you pray for God to reveal beauty indeed applies to yourself, not just to others. He is a faithful God and is happy to show you truth.
More Beautiful You - Jonny Diaz
Love and Blessings,
Kendra
“Let your true beauty come from your inner personality, not a focus on the external. For lasting beauty comes from a gentle and peaceful spirit, which is precious in God’s sight and is much more important than the outward adornment of elaborate hair, jewelry, and fine clothes.”