Let’s go back to what God showed us in episode #1546 “That’s a Problem”, and dig deeper.

The majority of us have a real problem accepting and loving ourselves. Let’s make this real clear … this is a problem. And it’s a problem for Jesus!

You will be known by your love and your love is to make him known, but you refuse to fully love the one person you can simply never get away from … YOU!

I promise you this, you hating you is not an honorable representation of your Creator. You may cover it up as humility, but at its core, it’s hateful. You’re hateful to you. And you being hateful to you doesn’t make a single soul say, “Wow, I just gotta know her Creator. I want to connect with the one who has given her this total lack of confidence.”

Have you been poorly representing the one who created you, the one who saved you, the one who guides you? This problem isn’t just going to fix itself. You think when you are in a happy marriage you will like you, but you’ll be way to busy trying to like someone else then. You think when you lose the weight you’ll like you, but then you’ll have saggy skin and wrinkles. You think when you finally graduate you’ll like you, but then you’ll have that expensive degree and feel the pressures of performing. You think when you have a better job you’ll like you, but it will all become work too.

Everyone tells me how badly they want my job. I get to travel around the world and take beautiful people on beautiful adventures. But do you know what I did yesterday? I washed windows and dishes at the retreat house. We spent most of the past 2 days grocery shopping, spending thousands of dollars on food that my husband will then cook for the next 18 women arriving today for their retreat. I wake up every morning, whether I’ve been traveling or working, to sit and write the next devotional that people around the world are counting on to be there to begin their day. Whether I feel like it or not, it’s what I do.

You think you would like yourself if you had my job … but would you? I promise you this, if you can’t like yourself in your current job, you wouldn’t like yourself in any other job.

The problem isn’t your husband, your job, your house, your family, your finances, or your body. You are the common denominator in everything in your life. If you don’t like you, everything falls short of making you happy. It’s never enough. Why? Because you have this gaping hole in you that causes you to never be fulfilled. The hole … knowing and loving who God created you to be. It’s truly believing who you are is fully enough through Christ. It’s seeing, appreciating, and boldly representing the fingerprints of God that are all over you.

Do you see God’s fingerprints on you? He carefully considered your design. Everything was with great intention and purpose. Do you see it?

Now, will you appreciate it? Instead of hating you, can you appreciate your uniqueness? Yes, girl, you’re quirky, but God loves quirky. Look at that quirky butt pink flamingo standing on one leg. God loves that bird! Look at the female anglerfish. Seriously, google that thing! Talk about a quirky fish. It has a fishing pole like extension on it’s forehead with a glowing light on the end. It dangles, attracting its prey just inches from it’s mouth with razor sharp teeth. And the God who wanted that fish so he made it, wanted you, so he made you. Your creator is asking you to appreciate what he made in you.

Once you see your uniqueness and appreciate it, boldly represent! Why would the flamingo try to be blue like the peacock when it was designed to be pink? Why would the anglerfish with it’s glowing lights and sharp teeth try to be a goldfish in a bowl? It’s not going to work. You hating yourself and trying to be something you’re not isn’t going to work!

I fall absolutely in love with people who show up as their authentic self and rock that. That authentic stuff is beautiful because it represents the fingerprints of God. That authentic stuff draws me in to their Creator. So doesn’t it make total sense that the devil would attack everything that is authentic in you? Wouldn’t he undermine your uniqueness and try to sit you in the corner? Of course he would! And he is!

The enemy of your soul has been telling you that you are “too”. Too dumb. Too clumsy. Too lazy. Too old. Too simple. Too much. Too shy. Too loud. Too slow. Too country. How crazy is it the enemy of my soul often tells me I’m too happy and I should tone it down.

What’s your too? In the hands of God, he will take everything you’re too much of and do his greatest, most miraculous work.

Hebrews 11:12, “Abraham was too old to have children. But from this one man came a family with as many in it as the stars in the sky and as many as the sand by the sea.”

Abraham’s too old to have children became too many descendants to count. That’s God timing and God math!

What’s your role in surrendering your “too” so God can do miraculous work in it? It’s quite simple, just believe it! That’s all Abraham did … he believed it.

Genesis 15: 5-6, “The Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!” And Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.”

How hard was it for Abraham to believe God? Abraham was too old and it was too late. Nothing about this seemed possible, but Abraham believed the Lord. He simply believed.

And that’s what God is asking you to do today. Just believe him. Believe that you are not too much of anything. Everything the enemy tries to discourage and overwhelm you with … well, he’s wrong! Whatever you’ve believed you’re too much of, is just God’s miraculous work unfolding in your life. Will you dare to believe God can and will work in you?

So this man who was too old became the father, grandfather, great grandfather, and beyond, of more future lives than he could possibly count. It happened because he chose to believe God would use his too old for greater things.

Tell me again where there’s too much of this or too much of that in your life. You’re too … what? Will you believe God wants to work precisely in that? Afterall, this is where his power works best!

God loves everything that makes you quirky and different. He’s been waiting for you to decide to love you too.

May you see, appreciate, and boldly represent the fingerprints of God that are all over you. And may you dare to believe God has chosen YOU for greater things.

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