No Filters Needed!

On the way to work one day last week, God just seemed to drop this is my spirit.

I am a frequent user of filters - snapchat filters, youcam filters, etc. etc. I don't like the way the wrinkles in my face wrinkle, the lines show up, the turkey skin on my neck wobbles ... you get the picture ... or hopefully, you don't. So I use filters. As soon as I find a new one that makes me look better, younger, smoother, less wrinkly, I install it. I'm all about filters. After having gotten frustrated with the latest photo of myself last week - even WITH filters. I looked myself in the mirror and said, "Girl, you gotta face it - you're looking old."

I was thinking about all the things we females do to try to look better for those we love (or is it for ourselves??), and Isa 44:2a popped in my head. The Lord formed you in the womb and will help you. Then my mind went to Psalm 139:14 I will give thanks to you because I have been so amazingly and miraculously made. Your works are miraculous, and my soul is fully aware of this.

Wowsa! So ... if I believe even just those two scriptures - who am I to complain about His creation? Really?! Does putting a filter on my picture really make me feel better about myself - about His creation. What's really amazing is the fact that He doesn't see all my faults and wrinkles - He sees me as His righteousness! 2 Cor 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

I don't need to put a filter on this corruptible body - God created me the way He wanted me to be - to look - knowing that I would age, knowing that my body would decay - and He's good with that.

So why aren't we? Jus'sayin'