You Are Beautiful

(c.Rebekah Gardner, 2010)
You are beautiful
You were purchased with love
From a rugged wooden cross
God shed his blood and died once and for all
You are worth more than anything in this world
Yet daily we seem to live for other idols that are before
Don’t ever let anything or anyone change you
Our society is so corrupted with lies
And definitions of their so called, “beautiful”
Just remember who and whose you are
You belong to the King of Kings
And the Lord of Lords
He loves you so much
But he knows that you struggle with the deceptions of this world
See the world tells you that beauty is by outward adorns
That if you have the latest clothes and are just skin and bones
Then you are beautiful and accepted in this society alone
But will you every be skinny enough
When our magazines and TV’s find destructive humor
In messing people up
See the magazines say that you need to look a certain way
By displaying pictures with people’s weight
And brutal comments of disgust and hate
But when they’re smaller the next headline says
“Anorexia has now taken over”
So once, they gain weight and actually get healthy
The headline turns to a glamorized bold title saying
Look how much weight she has gained by sitting there just reading
Is she not going to her Jenny Craig Meetings?
Really people, have we lost our minds
We need to get off this ridiculous pendulum
Let people live their lives
There are more important things to fill the paper with
Like starving kids that are living in Africa and Haiti
Our world is uncertain and lost
They use every outward thing like looks and fame
To display a fake beauty titled game.
Beauty can be deceiving
When the world just says one more nip and tuck
Will make you look so hot
We look into magazines
And say, “I want to look like that”
Yet who really looks like an airbrushed attack.
Our world is reaching for something that is fake and a lie
An airbrushed face with no zit or wrinkle around the eye
No cellulite or fluff to be seen
The celebrity on the magazine
Doesn’t even recognize
Her own self in the latest seventeen
We are caught up in foolishness and waywardness
In a definition that is so distorted and in need of a full transformation
Let me tell you about beauty
Beauty is found in God alone
No procedure, clothes, money, or fame
Can every replace the Name above all Names
Let me tell you what beauty is
Beauty is helping the mother who just lost her son
To a rare but deadly form of cancer in the lung
Beauty is sharing the love of Christ
To the teenage girl who just found out
That she is due in March
Beauty is serving the people outside these four walls
And realizing we are no different than
The robber who just stole from the mall
Beauty is giving to a family in need
Who just recently lost their house?
To a harsh and deadly hurricane
Beauty is sharing about Gods love and mercy
To girls who are struggling with eating disorders
It’s realizing that your trial is going to be used
To help other girls just like you
Beauty is living a life for Christ
And realizing that we are adorned with beauty
In His sight
Beauty is different than everyone else see’s
They have no idea what beauty really means
You are beautiful in the eyes of Christ
Do not get lost in the world’s
Vanity, craving, searches for something more
Something that is only temporary
And will never fill your void
Jesus Christ is the one and only satisfier
Of every person’s life
Do not ever forget that He is everything that you need
When society says just one more
Will make you so pleased
He is so faithful and loves you so much
Your belongingness can only be found
Through the blood of Jesus Christ

For he gave everything including himself
So you would be filled
And made in the image of Him
With beauty that is found through
The one and only Jesus Christ!
You are beautiful!