gaze

"Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor."

- Ezekiel 28:17

I am beautiful, inside and out. But only because I am reflecting Beauty itself. My beauty is not my own, nor my own creation. When I look at myself, I must choose to remember that what I am really seeing is the youthful, romantic, delicate face of my own God. 

When I watch another girl sweep past - confident, effortless, breath-taking - I must choose to remember it is a borrowed beauty, from the same Beauty that resides in me. 

I must take captive thoughts that fight to deny what God has spoken as truth over my very soul. I must make these stubborn, joy-dampening thoughts obedient to Christ. If He has called me beautiful then indeed I am, for He cannot lie. 


"The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose."

- C. S. Lewis

I must resolve to use what has been given to me for the glory of the King. Pride teaches me to use my beauty for my purposes, but the Spirit asks me to point all gazes in His direction.