A Prayer to Combat Who the World Tells You to Be – Your Every day Prayer

A Prayer to Combat Who the World Tells You to Be
By Molly Legislation 

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me collectively in my mom’s womb. I reward you as a result of I’m fearfully and splendidly made.” –Psalm 139:13-14

In response to a brand new particular report by 60 Minutes, social media platforms corresponding to Instagram and TikTok are steering younger customers, some as younger as 11, to accounts that promote anorexia and self-harm. Whereas that is very upsetting and unconscionable, research have additionally proven that utilizing these social media platforms results in decrease shallowness and despair.

Whereas social media and this expertise are new, the pressures that include the wonder requirements of the world aren’t. The world tries to inform girls they need to appear to be Margot Robbie, Keira Knightly, or Zendaya. The world tries to inform males they need to appear to be Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, or any of the opposite well-known individuals named Chris. As these archetypes of standard magnificence are lifted up in society, it may be tough to see and imagine there may be magnificence to be present in everybody. The world will inform you bodily magnificence is all that issues, the enemy actually desires you to imagine it till you are feeling depressed, nugatory, and hopeless. 

The world could be very tough, but additionally very clear. The requirements of magnificence are fickle and alter nearly each decade. Within the Forties, the usual of magnificence for girls was tall, slim brunettes. A match man within the early 20^th century was lean with toned legs and arms. The mechanics of growing pecks and abs had not been invented so that they weren’t the usual for magnificence. But we see within the Nineteen Fifties, the usual of magnificence for girls shifted to curvy, brief blondes as mirrored in Marilyn Monroe. Regardless that the pressures of wanting a sure approach change with the seasons that doesn’t imply their impact on our psyche is any much less damaging or intense. We see it mirrored within the rising variety of despair diagnoses, bullying, and even deaths by suicide in youngsters at present. 

Whereas the world is a liar and flighty, we all know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the Approach, the Fact, and the Life. He’s at all times fixed, loving, and devoted. We all know our Lord appears on the coronary heart as the usual of magnificence. Scripture tells us the Lord selected a small, younger David out of his bodily robust and older brothers to be the King of Israel. God additionally revealed to David within the Psalms how he created each one in every of us. He instructed him we’re rigorously created, “fearfully and splendidly made.” The actual fact our souls are those that can exist after loss of life and our bodily our bodies will die and switch to mud reveals how a lot our character, persona, and soul that chooses the Lord for salvation issues above our bodily look. 

Let’s Pray:
Expensive Lord, 
I do know the world speaks loudly and convincingly that the one factor that issues is how we glance, and another message is patronizing and a lie. However I pray your message about our internal magnificence and complex creation will overcome the lies of the world. I pray everybody is aware of how lovely they’re in and out — that the mechanics of human attractiveness is way totally different than the slender and shallow narrative of in style tradition. 

Lord, be with younger youngsters and adults who’re inundated with photographs deemed as lovely and acceptable in at present’s society. I pray they know your fact and hope for a greater tomorrow that isn’t dictated by social media. I pray that oldsters have the fitting instruments to navigate their kids’s anxieties, perceptions, and psychological well being. I pray everyone knows who we have been created by and the way we have been created. We pray on your steerage and overwhelming presence because the world tries to yell, lie, and manipulate us into wanting a sure technique to be joyful and profitable. Assist us drown out the voices that come to “steal, kill, and destroy” (John 10:10). We love and belief you with all of our hearts, our Lord our God. In Jesus’ title, Amen. 

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