Lately, I have struggled with my self esteem. I know that many women and girls also struggle with feeling beautiful in their skin. Well today we are gonna debunk the lies we tell ourselves.

A lot of women's main problem is their weight. Some think they are too skinny and others think they are too fat.The thing is we are all built differently. God has crafted us all and called us beautiful. If you are a size 2 or size 22 you are perfectly beautiful in your own way. However, we don't all struggle with weight some struggle with simply feeling beautiful. Due to the media and our secular opinions on beauty, we feed ourselves lies and put on layer after layer of makeup to try and feel beautiful, when really we are just beautiful simply as ourselves. I constantly try to remind myself that just because I don't look like every model in a magazine that doesn't mean that I am not beautiful too.

For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.(Psalm 139:13-14)

Fearfully and wonderfully made. We see such beauty in the flowers and trees, but never in ourselves. When really we were created by the same artist and we are priceless pieces of artwork. He calls us beautiful and his love is enough to remind me of my beauty and worth.Whenever I feel fat I remind myself I am thinking of the world's version of beauty and not my God's.

Beauty also shouldn't be thought of as simply outward appearance. If your heart is cold and your actions and words are ugly, are you actually beautiful? Beauty should be measured in your personality, your ability to love and care, and your will to serve the Lord. The bible reminds us multiple times that beauty isn't focused on the outside.

Do not let your adorning be external ,the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear, but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.(1 Peter 3:3-4)

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”(1 Samuel 16:7)

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.(Proverbs 31:30)

So the next time you look in the mirror and start to question your beauty, remember not only are you a perfect artwork of the Lord, but your inward beauty surpasses it all.

I would also like to highly recommend the song "Priceless" by the band Four King and Country. It is one I listen to frequently and it always reminds me of how beautiful I am!