Working on the Inside

          "Your heart is beautiful and I'm still working on it. I'm working on you from the inside to the outside. That's all that really matters right now. Once I get your heart where I want it then we will start to work on the outside."

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             I came up with this quote when I first woke up yesterday morning. As far as I know, I am the one that made it up and is saying it now. If it is from someone else and you know please let me know who. I will tell you how and why this quote came to mind as the first thing I thought about right after waking up to get ready for the day. 

             The crazy person that I am, some mornings, makes me look at Facebook while I'm in the process of waking up (aka laying in bed still). I got on Facebook that morning and a picture popped up that I really didn't want to see. It was nothing bad but just a picture that I had strange feelings about. After I saw that picture, it was like I was judging myself again like I wasn't nice enough or pretty enough to be in that picture. To tell you the truth, it isn't the first time that this had happen. 

              As I was thinking all those bad thoughts about me, it seemed like God was trying to break into my thoughts and remind me of who He made me to be or at least in the process of making me. It was like He was saying that quote in my heart and I was hearing Him. I will admit I had to repeat it several times before I got out of bed and got ready for the day. I just got up so down and worried about things because I can't seem to settle on anything right now. It is a good way to look at how God is working on things especially for us, girls. I will tell you what I think He was telling me in all of the words. 

             "Your heart is beautiful" was the first few words He put in my heart and those are the words I kept repeating mainly. He was saying just that, "Because of Me, your heart is beautiful and I will continue to make it beautiful." "Still working on it" was that last part. 

              "I'm working on you from the inside to the outside" meant that He was working on my personality and feelings to my looks. He was going to match my looks to my personality but first He is giving me one to match. Beautiful inside and out. With this job, He is giving me a personality that is a caring and loving one. He is making me see the world for what is really is and then giving me the tears for it. 

                "Once I get where I want your heart to be then we will start working on the outside" meant that the heart and feelings come first to God and then everything else like looks comes after it. God looks at the heart not the outside. He cares about how we treat people and not how we look while with them. 

               I was also thinking about, that morning and the night before, how I need to upgrade my clothes to my age in the next few months. Do I really look like I'm going to be 27 or do I look younger. Way younger? It wasn't just about clothes. It was also about career choices, college choices, family choices, living choices, and a lot of other choices. Where should I be right now? Am I where I should be at this age? It was like my mind never slept that night because it was getting ready to encourage me so I could go on for that day and I did even though I had a huge headache when I got home. It was a great day! 

               I know God is leading me along a path that He has for me. I'm liking it but as humans we tend to doubt Him. That is when we need to get down on our knees and ask for forgiveness. He knows us better then we know ourselves. He knows what we really need to get where we are going because He is the beginning and the end. He is the All-Knowing God!