I Am a Wise Woman: A Morning Mediation Series by Bwfwomanಮಾದರಿ

If you’re like me, sometimes you find yourself searching for more and more ways to make yourself beautiful. We scroll through social media, read magazines, consult the experts, and receive beauty advice from our friends. Instead of searching outside ourselves, we should look inside of ourselves, to the beauty God placed in us when He gifted us with the Holy Spirit. God’s presence in us reveals where our true beauty lies.

True beauty comes from the look of peace in your eyes, the rest in your presence, and the love you communicate daily to those in your life, on display even in the midst of everything not being exactly what you want it to be.

You obtain true beauty when you look into the eyes of God and experience His love. How? Through your quiet devotion time spent in His presence and learning to listen to His voice, all of which develops your spiritual practice.

Coming into a full understanding of just how much God loves you is something you can only get from Him, and it requires a love-encounter with Him. A love-encounter is just you and God, face to face...with you experiencing His light, His salvation, His glory, His grace, and His mercy. It can happen through asking and seeking, it can happen through hearing a testimony and desiring that experience for yourself, and it can happen as it happened to me - where everything I thought I knew to be true was proven inadequate after going through the life-altering trauma of divorce and God brought me to His throne through daily prayer and meditation time.

Everything I thought I knew about God was challenged beyond the point of what I felt I could bear. Ironically, that was just the point God wanted to get me to, to show me that His strength had to become my foundation. At that point, it didn't matter if I was "making it" or not. I learned that in my weakness, His strength was what I could rely on, and He completely rocked my world. I grew into a knowledge of His love day by day by learning to rely on His strength instead of my own, and the pain drifted away and was replaced with peace and wisdom, only gained by leaning on Him.

God uses everything in our lives to help us come into a knowledge of the FULL extent of His love. His devotion to us defies our human comprehension.

Today’s Affirmation

Today, you release control and give it to God. You can feel His strength becoming your foundation, and old beliefs that no longer serve His plan for you, gently fall away and are replaced with new beliefs. Scriptures come easily to your thoughts. You find yourself smiling when you see evidence of God in your life. He is real, and His “banner over you” is love. Today, you are spending time resting in the gentle beauty of God.

BWFwoman's manifestHER Daily Question of the Day:

What event can you point to in your life where you know that God’s unconditional love is what has kept you?