I write this in response to my feelings and concerns about our generation, which I am seeing first hand in so many of my non-Christian female friends, and some of my non-Christian male friends. Just the torment they face daily in trying to live in this corrupted society that we call America. We’ve overextended ourselves trying to live “The Dream”. We all want these perfect little lives, lived out in these perfectly sculpted little bodies, doing what Cosmo and Maxim tell us to do and how to be. And they dare call me, as a christian, the one brainwashed. I’m not popping pills to cope with depression. I’m not killing myself slowly trying to amass a fortune thinking it will make me happy. I know that it won’t make me happy. Looking back, I had all the material possessions I wanted growing up as a kid and was always unhappy, always wanting more because what I got didn’t make me happy. There’s a hole that we try to fill to make us happy. It’s a God shaped hole, and nothing but the love and grace of God and the peace that He gives can ever fill it. Money doesn’t fill the hole. Guys or girls don’t fill the hole. Cars don’t fill the hole. Nothing but God fills that hole. Everyone seems to be unhappy with their lives when they try to live in the world around us.
I feel that everyone really deep down actually, to some degree, acknowledges that nothing in this world will ever make us happy, but not everyone is willing to believe that there might be a loving God with something so much better for them. There is so much more for them with God. I don’t know how to describe the feelings I have had since I decided to live how God had said to live. I rarely feel stressed anymore, rarely depressed. If I feel any of those two feelings, I’ve found that I’m slipping into the standards of this world and not God’s standard.
God didn’t create us flawed, we let our society percieve us as flawed. We demand perfection in a world that isn’t and wasn’t designed to be perfect. We have these impossible to attain standards of how we should look, how we should run our lives, and what we should have. Women don’t need to all be 6 foot tall with 32D-26-28 measurments, blonde hair, and blue eyes, who just accept that most of the guys they keep finding are complete jerks. Men don’t need to be 6′5″, ripped, and don’t need to sleep with every girl they meet to be cool. That’s the opposite of how we should be. Now I don’t mean it’s a green light to be obese, for that puts unhealthy strain on your body and God wants us to do what we can to remain healthy. However, we should realize that the soul is what counts. The soul is all we will have when we die.
Girls, God has so much more planned for you. He created you and made no mistakes, despite what Cosmo may tell you. Cosmo and its advertisers don’t want you to be happy despite the claims of their articles. You know why? Happy people are content with what they have and content people do not spend billions of dollars on cosmetics and cosmetic surgery that is supposed to make you happier. God really doesn’t give a rip about how your make-up and clothes look, or how big your breasts are. He searches deeper within, and all those things tell Him are how much you care about what people think about you and about not Him.