I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:14.
As a young teenager growing up in the early 60s, I had a complex about my body. I didn't like the way I looked. I thought I was too skinny. I really don't know where those thoughts came from because I don't remember anyone actually making fun of the way I looked. And yet those feelings that I had, carried on into long after I was married. (They don't any more even though I am sixty plus years old and beginning to get gray hair.)
We all know that the entertainment world has done a lot of damage to girls and women especially in their quest to make them believe that they have to have a certain image, a certain "look" in order to make it in movies and so on. Sad to say, because they want it so bad, they fall for so many lies that the devil has told them about how they need to change their looks to meet certain requirements to become famous.
I recall seeing a woman on a talk show program that was addicted to having plastic surgery so much that she did not even look normal. Or how about the lady that wanted to look like the Barbie doll so she reportedly spent $500,000 on plastic surgery to become a "Human Barbie." And then there are those that find phony surgeons on the internet that have injected cement into parts of the body supposedly to enhance those body parts, only to maim or cause death to them.
For what reason do any of these surgeons do that? Whether licensed or not, it all boils down to money, of course. It is a huge industry.
How sad is our God that looks down on his creation to see the willingness of those that want to transform their bodies into something other then what he had knitted together in their mother's wombs. Yes, how sad.
And how sad is for those men and women that have so little confidence in their looks to spend their money on changing what God has given them, either from some that is qualified, or God forbid, someone that does it that has absolutely no training in it and ruins someones life because of it. All because they are willing to trust someone that has no business at all taking money from vulnerable people.
And yet, they want, when they want it and are willing to do what it takes to get it.
The Psalmist David had it right He knew where he came from. He knew that he wasn't just tissue in his mother's womb to become a baby at some later point. God put him together as he was growing in the secret place, and God actually knew him from his very beginning. Just as he knew you and I in our very beginning.
God help us if we don't.
June 9, 2019 Promise: Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in times of need. Hebrews 4:16
Hi Friends. I am so sorry that I didn't get here yesterday. I thank you for your patience and wish you a happy and blessed Lords day!
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