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Accepting and appreciating your physical appearance

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Monday March 9, 2026
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“Why did you make me this way?” Isaiah 45:10 NLT

Isaiah said that God “formed me in my mother’s womb to be his servant” (Isaiah 49:5 NLT). God deliberately shaped each of us for His service. How then can we complain that we are too short, too tall, too dark, too fair, or too anything else that is unchangeable? The word too implies something is beyond what’s desirable or more than what should be. How can anything that God formed be too anything? What we’re really saying is, “This feature doesn’t conform to society’s prescribed standard of beauty,” so we allow our non-conforming attributes to cause us to become insecure and rob us of our confidence. We then feel that our only solution is to change the undesirable feature. What a slap in God’s face. “Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying, ‘Stop, you’re doing it wrong!’ Does the pot exclaim…‘Why did you make me this way?’ This is what the Lord says…‘Do you question what I do?…Do you give me orders about the work of my hands?’” (Isaiah 45:9-11 NLT). You will strengthen your emotional security when you make peace with every aspect of yourself. By God’s grace and divine enablement, you must truly accept, not merely resign yourself to His sovereign design. When you do so, you stop comparing yourself to others and judging yourself as either inferior or superior. Self-consciousness and fretting over your outward appearance disappear. You have now cleared the path for your real inner beauty to shine through. It’s time to experience body peace, knowing you’re designed for your destiny, tailored for your tasks, and perfect for your purpose.

The Word for You Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from Celebration Enterprises, Inc. Copyright © 2024


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