My college roommate and I are still close after all these years and when we visit each other, it is just like old times. Even though we are so very different from each other, what we have in common is our love for Jesus and His word.
She has the most beautiful dark curly hair. Back then she wore it long, down on her shoulders, and it was so glamorous. She is from Pennsylvania with a Hungarian heritage, dark coloring and dark eyes. She is an only child.
On the other hand, I am from Oklahoma with a English-German heritage, so I have fair skin with light freckles, very light brown hair with reddish hints and green eyes. I am one of 5 children.
When we were roommates that year, we did each other’s hair. She knelt by the ironing board as I carefully ironed all the curl out of her hair. She gave me a permanent to make my hair curly.
Isn’t it funny how we women want to change our looks? We are never satisfied with the way our hair behaves naturally, so we are always changing it. But times have changed and now my friend has accepted her curls and I wear mine fairly straight.
God created man and then said His creation was “very good.” Each individual is created in God’s image. How could He have imagined each of us?
We cannot take credit for our looks. God made us the way we are on purpose, so we must learn to value ourselves the way God does. He loves us enough that He gave His only Son for us.
Ephesians 1:4-6 KJV says, “Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love…to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.”
Because of Christ Jesus, we are “accepted in the Beloved,” beautiful just the way we are.