Ladies, When You Look in the Mirror, What Do You See?
Ladies, when you look in the mirror, what do you see? If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, your answer can be “I see a beautiful reflection of God when I look in the mirror.” Why is it so difficult for so many of us to easily and honestly give that answer? Perhaps no one has ever told us we are beautiful reflections of God. Reflections of God must be nothing less than beautiful, if we believe God to be beautiful. If our God is beautiful, surely we must share at least a sliver of that beauty in our physical selves. We can see it every day and acknowledge it with gratitude and grace. Do we let the world tell us what is beautiful? Did some of us get mixed up and lost at that point? Basically, the world tells all of us that only a very tiny number of us are (or ever can be) truly beautiful and the rest of us must spend some of our spare time imitating, adoring, watching, and obsessing over “the beautiful.” When we are finished with the obsessing and ...