Monday, April 30, 2012

I am Proud to be a Bee

     It is very interesting to teach the teenage Sunday School class.  You never know the kind of answers or even questions that you might get from them, but I love it.  It keeps in the word and on my toes.
    This week I asked them a question if they loved themselves.  Two of them responded yes emphatically and the rest just sat there.  I was very surprised by the answer and yet very proud for the two of them that do. 
     We went on to discuss things about why and why not and I realized something so true and real.  Social media has our minds so messed up on what is acceptable and what is not that who can blame anyone for not loving themselves.  However, we have a Bible that is written through and through that we were created in His image and how can we not love that? 
     It was a light bulb moment for me.  Something so simple yet so surreal.  My God created me to be me and there is only one of me.  Some may say that is a good thing, but I believe that God wants us to love ourselves because we are fearfully and wonderfully made. 
     Now I might not like everything about myself.  I need to lose weight, I color my hair, and I wish my teeth were whiter, but are those things that make us me?  Those our external things and I am talking about the true inner me.  The core of who I am. 
     In the Bible are two great commandments.  To love God with all your heart and to love your neighbor as yourself.  How can you do the second if you don't love yourself?  So if asked again if I loved myself then I would have to raise my hand!

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