Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Image of Lie!

Have you cried out to fashioned idols and image Models?
Did you long to be conformed to their shape, size and image?
Did you think they would bring you love and happiness?
Have you confused being seductive with being beautiful?

I will start with few facts here, did you know that Marilyn Monroe considered an "ideal beauty" in the 1940s and 1950s, would be considered by today standards of beauty to be overweight with her size 14 shape!!
Only 4% of women have the genetic ability to match the "ideal body" type presented by the media, the other 96% often take extreme measures to obtain this unobtainable image.
True fact: Our physical body in itslef is a testament to the glory of God. In all of man's years of study it is still a mystery.

It could have been last year, five years ago or now when lies were whispered into our ears and minds, first you think the voice is a close friend or a boyfriend we listen to "you could look that good if you just lost 5 kilos, 10 kilos, ect) you will look better. Then the voice again "Don't eat that it will make you fat, she is thinner than you, you are huge! you are disgusting!
Then comes the comparisons, then the whispers becomes an obsession; soon you are not only listening you are believing until all you see in the mirror is a failure.
The image is never what we are and is always just beyond our reach, taunting us with her seductive eyes, Who is she anyway? her name doesn't really matter she is not real, she is an image modeled by the spirit of this world the media, though we know she is not real, young girls and older women look at her in awe, the young are inspired and the older are depressed.
Why would someone we have never met be able to influence us so profoundly? Because we have not allowed the imprint of God influence us as deeply as she influenced us! Without a definitive raising of His standards we have accepted the seductive graven image of the world. The ancient idols or graven images were forged by craftsmen who made them out of wood or stone no matter how dressed up they were on the outside they had no life in the inside; "The image you behold is the image you become not outwardly but inwardly".
We create idols and we  bow for them based on other people standards or maybe our standards, we exchange the truth for a lie whenever we worship or serve the created and not the creator;  the Idol is anything you draw your strength from or give your strength to.
If we are serving the gods of idols of this world we will recognize this in our desire to conform to the world's image, we will want the acceptance and approval of our cultures, we will desire what our cultures desires. we will look toward it gauging our success or failures according to the messages we receive from these idols.
If we are serving God and merely an image from any other source, we will experience a constant an ongoing transformation into his image and start looking at ourselves in his eyes and not in the idols we created, media and people we don't even know.

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