A Prayer to Fight Who the Earth Tells You to Be – Your Day-to-day Prayer

A Prayer to Combat Who the Earth Tells You to Be
By Molly Law 

“For you designed my inmost becoming you knit me alongside one another in my mother’s womb. I praise you simply because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” –Psalm 139:13-14

In accordance to a new exclusive report by 60 Minutes, social media platforms these as Instagram and TikTok are steering younger people, some as younger as 11, to accounts that encourage anorexia and self-harm. Although this is extremely upsetting and unconscionable, research have also proven that applying these social media platforms leads to decrease self-esteem and despair.

When social media and this know-how are new, the pressures that come with the splendor standards of the earth are not. The globe tries to inform ladies they need to appear like Margot Robbie, Keira Knightly, or Zendaya. The planet attempts to explain to guys they need to appear like Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, or any of the other famous people named Chris. As these archetypes of standard beauty are lifted up in modern society, it can be tough to see and think there is attractiveness to be located in absolutely everyone. The entire world will explain to you actual physical natural beauty is all that matters, the enemy absolutely wants you to believe that it until you experience frustrated, worthless, and hopeless. 

The planet is pretty difficult, still also extremely clear. The criteria of magnificence are fickle and modify virtually every single ten years. In the 1940s, the regular of elegance for girls was tall, trim brunettes. A in good shape gentleman in the early 20^th century was lean with toned arms and legs. The mechanics of acquiring pecks and ab muscles experienced not been invented so they have been not the common for magnificence. Still we see in the 1950s, the standard of beauty for ladies shifted to curvy, quick blondes as mirrored in Marilyn Monroe. Even although the pressures of hunting a sure way modify with the seasons that does not indicate their impact on our psyche is any a lot less detrimental or extreme. We see it mirrored in the climbing number of melancholy diagnoses, bullying, and even fatalities by suicide in teens nowadays. 

Whereas the world is a liar and flighty, we know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Lifestyle. He is constantly regular, loving, and trustworthy. We know our Lord looks at the coronary heart as the typical of splendor. Scripture tells us the Lord chose a modest, younger David out of his physically strong and older brothers to be the King of Israel. God also uncovered to David in the Psalms how he made each and each one of us. He explained to him we are very carefully developed, “fearfully and beautifully made.” The fact our souls are the ones that will exist soon after loss of life and our actual physical bodies will die and switch to dust shows how considerably our character, personality, and soul that chooses the Lord for salvation matters over our physical visual appeal. 

Let’s Pray:
Dear Lord, 
I know the environment speaks loudly and convincingly that the only issue that issues is how we search, and any other message is patronizing and a lie. But I pray your information about our inner natural beauty and intricate generation will conquer the lies of the globe. I pray everyone appreciates how lovely they are inside of and out — that the mechanics of human attractiveness is far unique than the slim and shallow narrative of well-known lifestyle. 

Lord, be with younger adolescents and older people who are inundated with photographs deemed as attractive and appropriate in today’s society. I pray they know your real truth and hope for a superior tomorrow that is not dictated by social media. I pray that mothers and fathers have the suitable applications to navigate their children’s anxieties, perceptions, and psychological overall health. I pray we all know who we have been produced by and how we were produced. We pray for your assistance and overwhelming presence as the globe tries to yell, lie, and manipulate us into seeking a sure way to be happy and profitable. Assistance us drown out the voices that arrive to “steal, eliminate, and destroy” (John 10:10). We appreciate and rely on you with all of our hearts, our Lord our God. In Jesus’ identify, Amen. 

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