Learning to love ourselves

I was listening to the song “Beautiful” by Ginny Owens and thinking about how so often it is difficult for us to see ourselves as beautiful. We see all the things we don’t like about ourselves and wonder how God could ever see us as beautiful. Perhaps the things we see in ourselves that we don’t like were never meant to be a part of who we are. Maybe that’s why we don’t like those parts. But God sees who we really are, who He created us to be. And His desire is to remove those things which we are not, in order for what He created in us to be revealed. As we allow God to do this work in our lives, like the blossoming of a flower, we begin to see ourselves as God sees us. We begin to see ourselves as beautiful.