When I Grow Up…I Want to Be Beautiful (Day 6.3)
January 2, 2010 by Christine
Filed under BF-Week 06
We’re listening to music at Bible Cafe, in the middle of week six Breaking Free Updated Edition by Beth Moore. Our lesson today is about a little girls’ desire to be beautiful when she grows up.
You’re Beautiful by Phil Wickman
Prayer Requests
Our pray today is to bathe in the glory of being beautiful as Christ sees us. We know that our security and beauty rests in the eyes of Christ, and that the bulls-eye of the enemy is to make us feel unattractive inside. Father, we praise you for giving us the beauty and for bring daughters of the King. We cherish your love, in Jesus name, amen.
Beth Moore Quotes
- God sometimes allows us to be let down and disappointed in life so we will learn to set our hopes more fully on Him-Beth Moore
- I’m learning to see myself as beautiful to Christ-Beth Moore
- Unless we find our identity in Christ, we are just as prone to appearance insecurities as unbelievers-Beth Moore
Today’s Scripture Verses
How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Song of Songs 4:1
But friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see him—and in seeing him, become like him. All of us who look forward to his Coming stay ready, with the glistening purity of Jesus’ life as a model for our own. 1 John 3:2 (Message)
No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That’s how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of his body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become “one flesh.” This is a huge mystery, and I don’t pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband. Ephesians 5:29-32 (Message)
Group Discussion
Was there a season of life when you felt unattractiveness? What variables added to these feelings?
Breaking free,
oh…you have no idea…LOL!
I am the oldest of three girls but the middle sister & I are 14 months apart. I was always the shy & quite one and she was the outgoing one & everyone noticed her. PLUS, we used to hang out in JH & HS that some who didn’t know us thought we were best friends and not sisters. I always felt in her shadow. She got all the boys & sometimes i got boyfriends who wanted to be closer to her. I always felt she was prettier than me. For a while i was content being in the background but a few times boys would always say something to bring me down when they compared us. BUT she always had my back when a boy was being mean.
now that i have a daughter, i always make sure to tell her she is beautiful. i don’t ever want her to self doubt herself. i want her to have a positive outlook on life, to be anything she wants to be and she can do anything she wants to do.