As I sat in Costa, scribbling in my journal and hitting the keys on my laptop, a sentence began to form on the pages before me:

“If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we need to start seeing things through God’s eyes.”

I felt like this line captured an essence of the Father’s heart that I hadn’t uncovered before: “If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we need to start seeing things through God’s eyes.”

 

So I asked for God’s eyes. I prayed for His vision; I wanted to write about beauty. I longed to know what it was to be beautiful, and after pondering this for a while, I had a little revelation…

Here’s how it happened: I was at my kitchen table, having a bad day. Balling my eyes out, I sought God: “Father, who do you say I am?” And in my heart, I heard God the Father – my Father – reply “you are beautiful.”

Seconds after I heard God’s voice, Holy Spirit brought to mind images of me aged 7, dancing in a purple corduroy dress with a sticky-up fringe and crimped hair. He continued and flicked through images of me caring for my brothers, my friends, my pet rabbit, my plastic baby born doll (!) Holy Spirit brought memories to my mind, memories of my childhood. But I wasn’t seeing these images through my own eyes. I watched my childhood through God’s eyes.

I heard Him whisper that I was beautiful because he made me to be compassionate. I saw how He had given me a spirit of leadership to round up my troops and brothers. And I also watched how He had placed in me a natural ability to wonder. To be amazed, to dance, cultivate joy and awe. When I thought I was ‘too sensitive’ God called me compassionate. Where I had written myself off as ‘bossy’ God told me that I was a born leader. While others have called me ‘ditzy’ I suddenly realised that God had made me to be filled with pure joy, no matter how strange that looks to others. And He reminded me that I am His daughter. That the gifts He has given me, nobody can take away. He loves me, He designed me. I watched Him behold little me, with a soppy Father kind of love.

Seeking beauty is seeking His vision. In order to be beautiful; ask for the Father’s eyes.

They say “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Simply put, what one finds beautiful, another may not. But I would like to suggest that God is the beholder. What God sees as ‘beautiful’ is beautiful, period.

YOU are beautiful, because he made you so. He saw you that way.

But if you show disregard for all the ways that He created you – you’ll miss it. You will miss out on your own beauty and trade the gift of beauty for a counterfeit. If you pursue beauty by means of comparison then I would like to suggest you are looking through the enemy’s lenses.

He made me to be different. To be a leader, to be full of compassion, to be in awe of Him – to dance in His wonder, to create the unseen, to tell you of stories that He’s laid on my heart. To come alive with childlike excitement as I write those stories. To reflect on moments, to see hearts. He called me beautiful. He still does.

What beauty has he seen in you that you keep putting on the backburner?