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"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Psalm 139:14 Most of us are very familiar with the fairy tale of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Snow White had a stepmother with a mirror that kept her updated with the fairest stats. If the story were written today, I am quite certain that the mirror would be in real time, and the stepmother would have her own personal trainer, chef, make-up artist, hair stylist, and, of course, her own wardrobe designer. As the story goes, the stepmother goes to every extreme to keep herself the fairest of them all. Some days, I find myself with the eyes of the stepmother looking into that mirror on the wall. It is very easy for us to get caught up in how we look, and we can become discouraged very quickly. The struggle with our appearance is not anything new. In Isaiah 65, Isaiah is encouraging the people about their final Salvation. He tells them that "he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth." I am confident that was for the women. We are all about looking young. When my daughter Abby was about four years old, we were having a discussion about our new bodies in heaven. I was emphasizing that it would be a different body. I soon learned that even four-year-old girls are also very concerned with what the mirror says. She wanted my assurance that she was going to have long, brown hair. I assured her that her hair would be beautiful! The next time we are struggling with that mirror on the wall, let's remember that we are wonderfully made, and in heaven we will never have a bad hair day! "But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body." Philippians 3:20-21
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