Who Are You? What Are You Doing? You Are Worth SO MUCH MORE!

Recently I have noticed a trend, it is not a good one, teenagers posting pictures of themselves with hardly any clothing on, making the duck face; adults with children creating posts full of filthy language and obscenities; both teens and adults posting things like, "truth is, inbox only" or "date or pass." This is extremely concerning to me. I was scrolling through my facebook and as I passed several of these posts back to back I started to think about it. Are these people trying to find their worth? Are they trying to get somebody, just anybody, to tell them they are pretty, or funny, or popular? What is happening? The sad thing is that these people are so concerned with what everybody else thinks about them that they have forgotten who they really are. The thing that is even sadder is that this mentality is being passed down to our teenagers and pre-teens.

When every single picture posted by a teenage girl is posted by her because she thinks she looks "hot" in it; THERE IS A PROBLEM! Of course every girl wants to feel pretty and wanted, even desired, and that desire is there for a reason. God created us that way! He created us to ultimately have a relationship with a husband that is unlike any other relationship, where we feel wanted and loved and through that relationship we feel closer to God because that relationship acts as a vehicle to worship and glorify him together with our husbands. The problem is that these girls do not know who they are and because of this they are turning to what other people think about their outward appearence to form their opinions of themselves and in turn they are not saving themselves for their husbands, heck, they aren't even saving themselves for a significant other, instead, they are plastering almost nude pictures of themselves all over the internet because they want that feeling...This is a problem.

Girls, I'm going to be real frank with you for a minute...YOU ARE WORTH SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT!!! You are worth so much more than that picture of yourself you just posted, with the shorty shorts and belly shirt; you are so much more than that private message you received five minutes ago as a response to the "truth is" status you just made...YOU ARE WORTH MORE! You are not a sex symbol, stop acting like it! God created you! He formed you, he knew you before anybody ever did. You are HIS! The same God who created the entire universe created you and he loves you more than anybody can ever even try to love you. Accept who you are, take your place as a child of the one true King and stop searching for this vain popularity that will bring you nothing and is not even real. You have so much more waiting on you than that but you have to accept it, and want it, and own it! Be royalty, that is who you are!

And guys....Stop chasing after girls who don't know who they are! You are royalty, as well! You are also a child of the one true King! Stop posting obscene, profane things that don't make you look cool, but instead make you look desperate. Take your place as God's adopted son and don't have anything other than what God has planned for you; and I promise he has BIG plans for you! Would you walk right up to the daughter of a king here on earth and in front of the king himself, tell his daughter something completely obscene that focuses on her sex appeal...I sure hope you wouldn't. Every time you say something like that to to a girl, not only are you completely saying the wrong thing to get her attention, but remember, God hears it all! He might as well be standing right there beside of you and you just spewed that ridiculous stuff out of your mouth right in front of God...and if you posted it on Facebook, you spewed it in front of God and everybody and you look like a fool! Don't be a fool, you are royalty; act like it!

So in conclusion, just as Mathew West sings, you are a "child of the one true King," act like it! Whether you have a personal relationship with Christ or not, maybe you don't even know him, remember that God created you, and he sent his son Jesus to die for you because he loves you just as much as he loves his son. God gave his perfect, blameless son for you, so that he could call you his! No, you're not perfect and you don't have to be. God even loves your imperfections...he DEEPLY loves you and it hurts him to see that you don't know your worth. Be confident in who you are in him! Because you are so much more than you allow yourself to be!

If you don't know Jesus and you would like to, feel free to message me and I would love to talk with you! :)

Psalm 139

1 You have searched me, Lord,
    and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
    you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
    and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    too lofty for me to attain.

⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

¹³ For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,^[a] God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
    they would outnumber the grains of sand—
    when I awake, I am still with you.

¹⁹ If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
    Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
²⁰ They speak of you with evil intent;
    your adversaries misuse your name.
²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,
    and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
²² I have nothing but hatred for them;
    I count them my enemies.
²³ Search me, God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting.