The Pearl or the Pig
By Chastity Burleson
So, I have been encouraged on more than one occasion to write. All I could think was, about what. Well today, I was, I guess what you say, inspired…..
Have you ever had a morning where you wake up feeling ultra confident. For no apparent reason you are thinking positively and feeling even kind of beautiful. You find just the right outfit and accessories to compliment the heightened optimistic emotion that you are currently expressing.
Then as you arrive at your destination, suddenly you look in the mirror and you hear it. Those gut wrenching, joy plummeting, oh too familiar words.
“It’s still just’ lipstick on a pig’.”
Interesting the choice of words you hear. They are different for every girl or women. It’s the same words you have heard your whole life. The adjectives and nouns you hear are very personal.
The enemy has been around for many years and by now he already has some “go to” words to attack you with. Some of the words you hear are memories. Some of them are words that have never actually been spoken to us, but in a tone or facial expression, you allowed your imagination to “fills in the blank” of what you just “know” that person is thinking about you.
Unfortunately, these words come at the speed of thought. So after spending the first hour, of your day feeling confident and bright and strong, within moments your left feeling depressed and lonely.
You have a choice in that moment. Do you take that thought captive and speak the TRUTH about who you are or do you say to yourself “that’s true” “why did I even try.”
Today I am telling you to speak the TRUTH. What is the TRUTH you say?
The TRUTH is…….
You are a beautiful creation, so intricately and delicately made. Yahweh the Creator of the Universe sent His Son to Earth. And that Son chose to be tortured, more than any human being could possibly endure and die on a cross. So that you could see just how valuable you are! He even used stories in His WORD to speak about the LOVE that he has for you. And poems to describe the romance that He wants to be in with you.
You think phrases like “most prized pearl” or “apple of my eye” are words uttered only by mere men.
They are heavenly expressions of God’s love for YOU!
I am actually telling you to SPEAK those things. You may tell me, “Well that’s silly.” “Why?”
But, you agree with the negative statements spoken over you every day. It’s just a matter of choosing only to agree with the good spoken over you.
Start with a beautiful statement that you already know you agree with about yourself.
Example: I am a trustworthy person and that is attractive!
You will be surprised at so just how many things that are right there in front of your face confirming the BEAUTY that you TRULY are!
