Saturday, September 20, 2008

Identity Theft

Do you find yourself looking in the mirror wondering just who it is that is in that mirror? Are you beautiful enough, handsome enough, thin enough, muscular enough? How do you measure up to the unrealistic standards set by our outward-appearance-obsessed culture? And if you meet those standards, what’s the ‘beauty’ quotient on the inside?


We’ve been buying those lies far too long. The world says looking a certain way and being attractive means being fulfilled, accepted, admired, or loved.


Instead of trying to recreate that external image based upon what the world says, you need to grab hold of the truth that says that through Jesus Christ, you’re already accepted, already secure, already significant, already enough.


God wants you to see the beauty inside whatever your body mass might be. Created in God’s image, you are enough—as is. And God’s love is one size fits all.


Last Sunday, we began the Identity Theft Series and we learned that we are all guilty of having

"STRONG" BELIEFS

  • Emotionally Strong

  • Provisionally Strong

  • Spiritually Strong

  • Professionally Strong


YOUR Strength is Limited
GOD'S Strength is Unlimited


Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will sour on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:30-31


Finally, Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Ephesians 6:10