“Anytime you reject any part of yourself, you are rejecting God’s wisdom and sovereignty in creating you.”

A thought by Rick Warren, (2012-10-23) from his book, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (p. 96). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

What is there about you that you don’t like?  Another way to put it is, if you could change anything about the way you look what would it be?

Now if you are a normal teenager it would be almost everything but many don’t outgrow that attitude.  They don’t like themselves.

Of course there are some things that you can change.  I want to weigh under 200 lbs. so I am doing something about that but I’m having trouble at getting taller. 

God says in Isaiah 45:9 (CEV), "You have no right to argue with your Creator.  You are merely a clay pot shaped by a potter.  The clay doesn't ask, 'Why di you make me this way?'"

But we seem to want to do that all the time.  We want to argue with the Creator about something in the way we look.  But what if He has a purpose behind how you look?  What difference would that make in your acceptance of the way you were made?

And that to me is one of the great benefits of believing in a wise and sovereign God who created you and who has a plan and a purpose for your life and who really, really loves you.  If and when we accept that as a fact our life takes on a whole different meaning.  In other words that is really good news.

One of the first parts of that plan is that He wants to have a relationship with you.  That is His desire but He leaves the choice of you having that relationship up to you.  He wants to be my friend and all the benefits of having that friendship is up to me.  It starts with asking Him to become my best friend.  I did that and He is.  

So why not accept Him as your friend and also accept yourself as He created you?