Do you feel bombarded by the messages society stipulates for living a good life? If you are a woman, these statements can be even more engulfing.

The constant communication of what to wear, the ideal weight, the perfect age to be married, the most appropriate age to have children, the type of man to marry, the ideal body type, etcetera, can at times be inundated. There are so many voices speaking yet conveying the same messages.

It is time to silence the wrong voices and begin listening to the truth of God’s word regarding your identity.

For the longest time, North American culture has influenced the way other cultures view and develop their own standards for beauty and there has always been only one standard; which is completely absurd.

If there are varied shades, shapes, and heights of women, how can there be one perfect type of woman while the others are categorized as secondary or worst, ugly? It just makes very little sense.

If every woman is created equally in the image of one Father- why would He make one set of women beautiful and the rest of His daughters any less?

If you had the ability to design how your children would look and how they would behave, would you not choose the same level of playing field for all of them? Of course, you would. 

God made all eight billion of His children beautiful, there is not one unattractive person in His eyes, and all are His very best masterpieces.

Those from African descent, European descent, Asian, Hispanic, and everyone in between are all equal in stature, features, personality, and worth.

It is we who have created these evil tools of division among one another- with racism, colourism, a singular standard of physical beauty, and even standard personality types.

These deliberate differences created by The Father for His good pleasure have for centuries been used by some as tools to entrench superiority while leaving others to feel like lesser, lower, low-grade subordinates.

How can a system of such be any good? The more we buy into these systems of divisiveness, the more we will destroy one another, not just the obvious classes of people but all of us. We throw things out of balance by believing and living these lies and hurt our Father’s heart.

We hurt ourselves, our elders, our children, and future generations. It is time for the people of God to come together and be united in love, in the oneness of who we truly are, God’s children.

It is time to break down the walls of separation including distorted perceptions of authentic beauty and begin to treat one another with kindness and fairness across the board. Until we begin to do this, we will continue to experience heartache and pain not just in certain groups but in all our communities.

Once upon a time, drug use among youth was predominantly in lower-income areas, over the past decade or so, it has made its way to middle and upper-class households.

Ladies and gentlemen, the enemy has a plan to destroy humanity, and destruction has no limits or boundaries, it does not discriminate; it will not just stay on one playing field, choosing to affect some and ignoring others; no, it has come to destroy all people.

The enemy of our souls has one mandate- to kill, steal, and destroy everything wholesome and Godly and this includes how you view yourself.

Self-perception dictates the way we view the world and live our lives.

Unknowingly, our perception of beauty has continued to be influenced and even distorted throughout the years by television media, billboards, social media, magazines, racist ideologies, filters, and airbrushing. It is time for a change and it begins with you.

You cannot regulate the information and images that are marketed but you can control how you respond to the messages you see and hear. You don’t need to accept what you are fed, you can send it back- reject it.

If you don’t like the food society is serving; don’t eat it! Stand up and be bold in who God says you are, accept all of you, and begin to believe you are beautiful and worthy; period!

This is who God says you are. He is the one who designed you and only he gets to identify you.

Whatever your shape, your shade, your height, your weight, be happy with yourself.

Be proud of how you look, be proud of the shape of your nose, the shade of your skin, the texture of your hair, the length of your hair- love and embrace all of you, including the parts you are not so fond of.

For you are God’s masterpiece, His very best work, and when He was finished making you-He took a step back, looked at you with admiration in His eyes, and said “Yes, I might have just outdone myself with this one! For this is truly my best work yet and it is very good.”

Genesis 1: 31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!