Here we go! So, it's been on my heart to start a blog. Why "Wonderfully You?" Why not? We serve a wonderful God, who made a wonderful you! "Yes, but Ellen, you haven't seen me when I first wake up in the morning or when the kids have just thrown up all over me or when I am covered in Clorox from cleaning up the latest mess! I really don't feel so wonderful then and I surely don't look it!" I like to think God smiles at us during those times and still sees us as beautiful, precious women. The Bible tells me that He has loved us with an everlasting love. Doesn't that include the sleepy eyed one looking back at you in the mirror each morning?
But I think so many times we measure ourselves by our shortcomings, when God is rejoicing at our successes and looking at the destiny He placed in each one of us. He knows our end from our beginning. Be it a project, a ministry, a business, any goal - we look at it from the beginning stages, but God is looking at it from the end back to the beginning.
In Genesis, after God made the heavens, the earth, the animals, the stars and us, He saw that it was good! We need to know that we know that we know that! God doesn't make junk! We need to have the confidence and reassurance in that!
I have ten very dear nieces and one dear nephew who are so precious to me. I am constantly telling them how cute they are, pretty they are, handsome they are, loveable they are. One day, after telling one of my nieces that she was so cute, she boldly took no time to respond: "I know". As I chuckled at her confidence, I said, "How do you know?" and her response was "Because you just told me!" DUH!!! As if I didn't know! But did you know that God has ALREADY told you how precious you are to Him; how beautiful, how handsome, how wonderful, and awesome you are? Sometimes we may need to be reminded, but once we really get it, we can boldly answer, like my niece did, "I know!" I know who and whose I am. And once we get that settled in our heart, all I can say is: lookout because that confidence will take you further in God that you dared to dream! Friends. stay tuned, because this is gonna be good!
