When I was looking in the mirror this morning, it didn’t take long at all to start picking at my flaws. Staring at my reflection, I began to think, “I wouldn’t get plastic surgery, but if God came to me and told me he would change my nose, I would be all about it.”

Why is it so easy to look at ourselves and not like what we see?

The longer I continued on that thought process, the more I began to realize how wrong it was. The most beautiful and talented artist there ever was created me. He thought me up in His mind and made me the way He saw to be perfect. Who am I to say that God didn’t do a good enough job when He made me?

I am beautiful in God’s eyes.

God doesn’t make mistakes. God makes masterpieces. God calls me beautiful. God is never wrong.

We wouldn’t change a thing about a painting hung in the Met, so why do we change ourselves? Why do we find flaws in our reflections when we could see radiant beauty?

I don’t like my nose. I don’t like my voice. I have big eyes. But the thing is, I didn’t find flaws in those before I was told to. I was told in the ninth grade that I have a weird nose. Ever since, that is what I see when I look in the mirror, and what I wish I could change about myself.

But that is one of the endless things God loves about me.

Society tells you not to be insecure. But society tells you that you are self-obsessed as soon as you find something that you like about yourself. There is a fine line to walk when trying to please the world. But the world isn’t who I want to please.

God tells me that I am “Fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14).

Next time you look in the mirror, tell yourself you are beautiful. As much as it feels like it isn’t, it is okay to find yourself beautiful. You don’t have to be insecure. It is hard to try to make yourself like something that you have spent years wishing wasn’t there.

But real beauty isn’t even found on the outside. Beautiful people are made from beautiful minds, hearts, and souls.

There is no need to seek beauty. Eating makeup won’t make you a beautiful person, and putting it on can only do so much. There is nothing you can buy that will make you beautiful. Pretty, yes. Beautiful, no. Beauty comes from within; beauty comes from God.

I am beautiful when I serve the Lord. I am beautiful when I speak kind words. I am beautiful when I care for others.

Let the beauty people see in you be The Lord, not the makeup on your face.

You are beautiful because of your thoughts. You are beautiful because of the actions you show to others. You are beautiful because God declares that you are.

You are beautiful.