Define Yourself

Define Yourself

Wendy Blight

“Define yourself through the hands and eyes of a true artist.”

As I closed the stall door in a public restroom, that slogan caught my attention. It was the headline on an advertisement for a plastic surgeon. Reading those words, I knew this doctor was tapping into longings every woman has: to be beautiful, loved, and accepted by others.

But for most women, this is not reality. We don’t see our beauty or worth. We look in the mirror and see only faults. We allow others to define us by what we’re not.

Sometimes we get these messages from our culture. But other times they come from the people we love—parents, friends, our spouse. Their words deceive us into thinking we are unworthy and unlovely, failures as women and even as children of God.

Yet God created us to be women of strength and beauty, each of us with a divine purpose planned by Him before we were born. God alone has the right to define us. No one else.

There is only One true artist and His name is God.

God is the Creator.

The truth about our true identity isn’t pasted on the back of a bathroom door; it’s lovingly written across the pages of Scripture. You are:

• Created in the image of God. (Genesis 1:27)
• Fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139:14)
• Precious and honored in His sight. (Isaiah 43:4)
• Redeemed and forgiven. (Ephesians 1:7)
• A new creature in Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
• Holy and blameless before God. (Ephesians 1:4; 1 Corinthians 1:30)
• Chosen by God. (1 Peter 2:9)
• God’s masterpiece. (Ephesians 2:10)
• Created with purpose to do great works for God’s kingdom. (Ephesians 2:10)

You are God’s creation—beautiful, strong, and created with a unique plan and purpose. Rest your head on your pillow tonight knowing and believing who you are in Christ. Pray for God to reveal to you who you really are—not who you are in the eyes of your parents, your spouse, your children, your friends, or even in the eyes of the world. May you know who you are in your Father’s eyes.

Dear Lord, thank You that You are my Creator. Thank You that in You and You alone I find my identity. Father, open my eyes to see who I am in You. Make every truth I learned in this devotion a reality in my life. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

REMEMBER

You are God’s creation, created in His image, beautiful, strong, and with a unique plan and purpose.

REFLECT

How do you see yourself? After reading this devotion, how do you feel God sees you?

RESPOND

The apostle Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians teaches us that in Christ we are a new creation; the “old” has gone and the “new” has come (5:17). What do you need to give up from your old life so that you can embrace your new life?

POWER VERSES

2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 Peter 2:9