One of my favorite TV shows is Full House. I own the whole series on DVD. I was watching an episode of Full House recently and the opening scene struck me in a way that never did before- maybe I was just being over-analytical that day. DJ and Stephanie fix up Michelle's hair so beautifully and tell her she is going to look beautiful for Grandma. They have her look in the mirror to see how she looks. When she sees herself in the mirror, they ask her how she looks. She replies "No good, I look like me!" then she picks up a blond wig and walks back to the mirror and says "Now I'm a movie star!
This is a simple scene that is suppose to be funny and most people wouldn't read much into it but I couldn't help asking myself how many each of us do this every day. How many of us wish we were someone else and look in the mirror or at our current situations and say "No good, I look like me!" We may look in the mirror and see aspects of our physical appearance and do everything we can mask our imperfections. Or we can look at the mirror and see our circumstances and wish we are seeing in the mirror someone else- the person we wish we were. I look at the mirror and I see my circumstances. I wish I was not me and was someone else. I do not see myself for what I have accomplished but rather I compare myself to others. This adds to depression, anxiety and moments of extreme panic! When I read verses like Psalm 139: 14 that says "Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it." I feel an emptiness and strong desire to believe it. How I desperately need and want to be there!
What about you? What makes you look in the mirror and say "No good, I look like me." What are you hiding behind all that makeup- internally and externally that you put on every morning? More importantly, what can you do to help you be able to say verses like Psalm 139:14 as a claim over your life- your birthright. In every essence, believing and claiming verses like Psalm 139:14 is our birthright. It is our destiny. It is our calling to live life claiming verses like that one but most of us resort to the makeup and hiding who we are. We don't feel good enough to be ourselves. We don't feel comfortable in our own skin. We wish we were anyone else but ourselves. Can you imagine how much better we would feel if we were comfortable to just be us? Content in the season of waiting? Content in your circumstances? I want that so badly for you and for me. It all starts with a choose to believe what we know to be true over our feelings.
Romans 9:20-21 No, don’t say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, “Why have you made me like this?” When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn’t he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?
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