Prove It!!

So this week I have been thinking a lot about my personal image.... If I am to fat (I say its comfort...), if I have to much facial hair (there is never enough) and if what I am wearing is "cool" (it most definitely isn't)... But seriously we all go through this thought process as if we need to prove to everyone in the world we are cool, or with the time. When all we need to do is accept that we are never going to be perfect until God makes us that way.

So I was walking through town on Monday and I was stopped by one of the guys from the youth group I help out at. He was carrying a lot of shopping bags and they were full of brand new clothes and trainers. He said it cost him 200 pounds.... TWO HUNDRED POUNDS!!! In my mind I was wondering what it would feel like to have 200 pounds in my bank account let alone spend it on clothes.... My first question was "why.... why have you spent 200 pounds on clothes?"....

His answer was.... "Because its whats in..."

Because it was the fashion.... Wow I thought and i said goodbye and walked on....

200 hundred pounds on peoples opinions. 200 pounds just to stay "in". 200 pounds and next week or month it will be out of fashion again. Crazy...

It sucks to live that way. Why can't we all just accept that we are the way we are because that is who we are.... Why do we run to fashion... plastic surgery.... social groups....?

What would happen if we all suddenly accepted that we are never going to be amazing... that we are never going to be able to buy it... that the only way we would ever be able to see that is through Jesus.

That guy knew something. He knew about different social groups but He overcame it... He saw what was the latest fashion and He just walked straight past to chill with the homeless and the poor... He never accepted the latest craze. He just knew that it was all unnecessary.

How come we dislike ourselves or we find so many flaws that we need to change everything about us?

The way I see it is that when it says in the bible that we are made in the image of God. When we go to change that or disguise it. We are really saying that we don't like that part of us. That we should probably just hide it away in case someone see's it.

I am not saying this as if I don't see flaws with myself, I do see flaws... many flaws that have been my own decision. I'm over weight because I eat to much, I have bad nails because I bite them.... I get eczema on the backs of my legs due to wearing jeans all the time because I don't like wearing shorts that much.

But these are all my decisions in my life that have led up to this.

God made me in His image and I have distorted it in so many ways.

The same with you.

The only way we will ever feel happy, comfortable and free again is through the acceptance of Jesus.

Sorry for being preachy but that's whats going on in my head right now!

Thanks for reading :)