I don’t know how it came to be that all this has happened
but I know that it was not from one day to another. Day after day, slowly and
steadily things have been placed in out minds and our thoughts that slowly have
desensitized what we think and do. Everywhere we look I see how our minds are
bombarded constantly by the media to think one way or another. What is worst is
that we actually believe it.
As I visit Facebook and Twitter I see people whose minds
have been flooded with these misconceptions of beauty, fame, success and well-being.
I read hundreds of comments of young girls comparing themselves to the
Kardashian’s and Rihanna’s of the world. Young men wanting to be like Chris
Brown and Kanye. I must confess that this is utterly disappointing. I hate to
see young girls, not only teenagers but also college-aged ladies comparing
themselves to Kim Kardashian (remember that she only became famous after the
release of a pornographic video). I hate to see how many young men want to be
like Chris Brown (who beat up his girlfriend). Arguably there are a lot of
things to say about them and many others whom popular culture has put up in a
pedestal but that’s not the point.
Here is the point… “WE ARE A MASTERPIECE.” (Ephesians 2:10)
Period. We were created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26, 27). Yeah, it might
be a bit distorted and we might be seeing it through a foggy mirror but that
never changes the fact of who and what we are. Our value is not what we think
we are worth, our value is what God thinks it is. We are so valuable that He
gave His Son to die for us. In the words of an overused cliché, “God does not
make junk.”
So, with these words I have a simple conclusion. Don’t look
at yourself with the eyes of this world; view yourself in God’s eyes. When you
see yourself as the world sees you, you will always end up looking down. When
you see yourself the way God sees you, you will always look up!
“The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment”
_Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
― A.A. Milne
