I have stickers on stickers on stickers covering my water bottle, over-sized t-shirts out the wazoo and my chacos are my best friends. I write inspirational bible verses on anything and everything. My journal looks like it was thrown into an ocean of calligraphy and watercolor. All of these things make up who I am, but they do not define my relationship with God.

Some people believe you need to look a certain way, go to church every Sunday, and basically bleed the bible to be Christian. This, my friends, is false.

Christians come in many shapes and forms, and not any one person's relationship with God is the same. Your relationship with Christ is not based off what others view it as, nor is it determined by which shoes you wear, the artsy pictures you take, or the way you write bible verses. Being a Christian means you believe that God loves you and wants you; that He is the one true King.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
{‭‭John‬ ‭3:16‬ ‭NIV‬‬}

God wants to build a relationship with you, not just watch you paint beautiful watercolor canvases with His words on them. Your looks do not matter. You are made in the image of God so why not love yourself the way He made you? Don't let society tell you that you need to look a certain way because at the end of the day your happiness matters and God loves you based off the looks of your heart, not your appearance.

You should be able to tell someone is a Christian because of the way they act not the way they dress. For the longest time I would meet people and I was always wondering what it was that made me perceive them differently than anyone else. They were confident, joyful and uplifting people. What made them different was that they knew the Lord and I wanted that.

So no matter what shoes you wear or how many stickers you have -the Lord loves you and wants you.