How many times do we think that God is great- I would hope a lot, but how many times do you hear He is handsome? Today, I want to talk about how in loss of self™ we want to hear we are pretty or handsome, but even if we did, we wouldn’t believe it. Recently, I have been having discussions about God and Jesus, but more importantly I have heard things that contradict other parts of the Bible. I want to talk about God being handsome first.

I have read in the New Testament that nobody has seen God, and today that seems reasonable, but the New Testament is based on the Old Testament, and there, Moses did. God told Moses that He wouldn’t see His face, but his back as He walked off; further the verse states that God has hands, and hinder sides. The Bible states God likes the smell of sacrifices, and God has emotions or a heart. Since all of this exists, could it also exist that God is handsome because He has a body? If you go metaphysical, does that mean all of us are part of His greater consciousness as His mind? Also, if God has a body, does this explain why we are made in His image? I think for some this is not a concept easy to pallet because it contradicts what we are taught in church, but I find that in loss of self™ we want to know these answers in certain scenarios as well.

Our identity is a great aspect of who we are, and as someone looking to know who they are after a negative event, life transition, or PTSD experience, you should know you are no different. The centuries have tried to understand and grasp God, but have gotten no nearer than speculation and divine intervention. In your search of being pretty or handsome, remember you have a past, like the Old Testament, that builds on your present, which is like the New Testament; therefore dictating your future like the Holy Spirit’s wisdom and truth that was there from the beginning, and is shared throughout your journey. Your spiritual journey is one that has been crafted to show you special things about yourself, heal aspects of your family’s past, or to bring a greater oneness to the world. In these recent discussion I have also heard that there is no cannibalism in the Bible, and also, this is false.

In loss of self™ we eat ourselves alive either for materialism or negative emotions, but in the Bible there is a story two women who had babies, and the area was in deep starvation. In these harsh moments they ran out of food and didn’t know what to do. As before in Abraham’s story, his wife Sarah wanted his second wife and son to leave for the second time. He finally kicked them out, and as they were out of water in the desert, the Egyptian mother set her son under a tree and cried, but it was only when the son cried that the angel saved them. Unfortunately, in this story there was no saving. The women agreed that, that night they would eat one of the children and the next day they would eat the other. Well that night they did eat, but the following night the other mother was nowhere in sight.

You have to wonder in loss of self™ how desperate can you get? How lowly could you be to take the life of one and run to save yourself, knowing another is in pain. In reality, is this not what happens in loss of self™? You take yourself and allow it to be “eaten” due to the desire for something that should quench your desires. You either find out, by leaving or being left, that there was no quenching, and then you are lost because you allowed it to happen. How handsome and pretty can you be if you are desperate? I think we could all say not very- think of sales men, that creepy person at the club, or just your kids nagging you to be with them. It all is the same.

As these women ate the child, one woman lost, but the other “survived”. Here, selfishness and desperation truly seems to be the same because there was no thought of other ways. I mean, I have never been in that scenario, and like God, I would like to think that I did everything that I could to help others, even meaning giving them the tools to do it alone, but would I? Have you truly helped yourself or others to be handsome or pretty people to their fullest extent? Have you led them through resilience or gave them a hall pass to toss their morals and values out the window in the name’s sake of “healing”?

Today, you have to see that people, if they don’t do it, they may not know it- just like these stories. In finding out the truth of the present, past, or desired future you have to put in the work. You have to see there is more than what just meets the eye, and you keep the promises to yourself to ensure that you know what you need to. God is great. God is handsome. God is amazing, but as someone made in His image that means you are too- even in loss of self™. Your emotional struggles, silent battles, and repression of truths does not make you better in His eyes because He already knew. We all have our love broken, and many don’t know what to do, but it’s time that you start to review yourself in new light. Find your truths and to make this life the one people have ample positive stories for in the end. Good luck handsome & good luck pretty, I look forward to hearing about it!

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