I have a question for the ladies. How many of you love makeup? Eyeliner, lip gloss, eyeshadow, you know makeup. ...
Most of us women love makeup. And there is nothing wrong it that. But here is an even bigger question, why do we wear makeup?
To even our skin tone.
To enhance our eyes.
To highlight our features.
But mostly to look and feel beautiful.
This longing in our hearts to be beautiful is the nature of our feminine hearts .We long to be beautiful. And to be seen in the world as beautiful, not cute, not pretty, and not adorable but beautiful. Now I want to say to each and everyone that you are beautiful and it is not the makeup you are wearing or the way you fixed your hair this morning. And I bet you are thinking "Jes my mom tells me I am beautiful all the time but it doesn't mean anything because she is my mom and she has to say things like that."
But here is the thing, you are beautiful solely because you are created by God. In Song of Songs 1:15 "Ah, my beloved how beautiful you are." God tells us each and every day we are beautiful. Somehow in our society we have forgotten that our beauty cannot be measured by pounds, wrinkles, bra size, hairstyles, or even clothing. WE have forgotten that our value is determined by the same creator that made the earth, the wind, sea, sky, rainbows, mountains, sunsets, and snow, whose knowledge of beauty is greater than we can imagine and whose expression of love is more than we can ever fathom. We are beautiful because God loves us and created us in His image. And that makes us beautiful.
Once we accept this as truth it will change your life. I know this because it happen to me. Growing up I was never told I was beautiful. My dad always wanted boys and he got three girls. And my other sisters are very beautiful and I wasn't or I thought I wasn't because no one ever told me I was. I was always critized about my weight and about my hair and the fact that I wasn't a boy. So I didn't like being a girl at all. I hated it. So once I got to college I started to date this guy and I thought he was amazing and he told me I was beautiful and amazing. I was swept off my feet. But soon he started to tell me other things that I need to lose weight and I needed to keep my hair long because that was what he wanted. And I did it. Because He told me I was beautiful. Then he started to tell me other things. If you love me you will do this, and quickly our relationship became inpure. and then we broke up because and I was torn because I put all my worth in our relationship because he told me I was beautiful. Then I joined a Catholic sorority and these women were beautiful. And I wanted what they had. They were beautiful because they knew they were loved. And because of them I fell in love and came to know my full beauty.
So not only are you beautiful but we are loved. In the Bible we are refered to as "Beloved" which means simply one who is loved. Now we don't always feel loved. I want to tell you as story.
Once upon a time there was a king and queen and they had a beautiful daughter they named Beloved. The princess grew up totally loved. She was dressed in beautiful dresses, ate the most delecious foods, learn to ride horses, and to paint. She wanted for nothing. One day Beloved goes for a walk in the forest and walking back to the castle she falls and hits her head. She wakes up and has no idea who she is. She sees that she is wearing a beautiful dress and she thinks surely this must mean something. She runs out of the woods desperate to learn who she is. Along her way she comes to an old woman, who lives in a hut surrounded by heaps of trash. She asks the woman, "Do you know who I am?" The old woman reconises her as the princess Beloved, but tells her "you are the pesasnt girl who lives with me and works for me." The girl looks down at her beautiful dress and questions the old woman who responds " That dress is not yours, it was stolen from the castle. Let me get you your clothes." Beloved takes off the beautiful dress and puts on the rags the old woman gives her then she began to do the chores to woman told her to do. She ate the weak soup and slept in the trash heap of a hut. For months and months she lived never questioning her life or looking for her castle. One day there was a procession with the King and Queen coming through the forest. The girl went just to catch a glimpse of them. Some how she found herself in the front row. When the queen caught a glimpse of her she broke into tears and the king jumped off his horse. He went up to the girl and asked her "What is your name?" She answered, "Forgotten." He asked he if she remember anything about the castle or horses or any of these good things. She said no but I am dreamed of them. The King looked into her eyes and said, " You are my princess, My Beloved, you are my beautiful daughter. We lost you and we never thought we would find you again. We were heartbroken, please come home the castle is yours. We love you." Forgotten looked at them and said, " No, I am not a princess, I am a peasant girl and I have to go before my keeper gets angry." The king and queen asked her again to come to the castle with them. She refused and told them they were mistaken. How could someone like her be a princess? She walked away sadly back to her hut.
Believe it or not this is the story of us. We are created by the King and we are His princesses. We had all these good things but somehow we have forgotten about them. We belong to the greatest King of all. We were made to live in joy with Him but we take ourselves out of His kingdom and choose to live in our trash filled heaps.
You are worthy of this love. It is yours. This is what I want you to remember. You are beautiful, loved and worthy. Because that is the way the Lord created you to be.
In Him through Her,
JES
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