Just As You Are

Know that the LORD, He is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Psalm 100:3

A proud grandmother was admiring the way her four-year-old granddaughter had dressed herself—until she got to the feet. “Why, honey,” the grandmother said gently, “I think you’ve put your shoes on the wrong feet.”

The little girl looked down at her feet and then up at her grandmother. “But, Grandma, these are the only feet I’ve got!”

In her misunderstanding, the little girl made an important point, one that modern, image-conscious people would do well to remember: the features God has given us are the only ones we’ve got! It’s easy today to become dissatisfied with who we are and what we have been given: our looks, our intelligence, our skills and talents, our personalities, our physical build. But the Bible says we are the handiwork of God—that He shaped us in our mothers’ wombs. A large part of becoming comfortable in our own skin is recognizing that we are unique in God’s sight. We are one-of-a-kind people, created to accomplish for Him what only we can.

Consider taking stock of who you are and thanking God for His perfect wisdom in creating you to be one of a kind.

He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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