Changing Your Scars into Beauty Marks

Do you have any scars? The other day, I was looking at my scars in the mirror and was curious to know how many I had, so I started to count them. As soon as I discovered the number, I heard God whisper to my heart, “Jen, the number doesn’t matter. When I look at you, I don’t think, she’s the girl with all the scars. I think...You are beautiful. You are worth it. You are priceless. You are mine.”

The same is true for you. When God looks at you, He doesn’t see your brokenness or your scars. He sees you as beautiful, priceless and redeemed. It doesn’t matter if you have physical scars or emotional scars. Many of us have scars hidden deep in our hearts. God sees those too, and He knows about all the pain that you have endured. 

One of the verses that has helped me the most is Psalm 56:8: You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. God saw each and every tear you have ever shed. He cares about each and every pain you have ever felt. He keeps track of your tears and your scars, so He can wipe them all away one day in Heaven where there is no pain or suffering forever.

I have to admit, I don’t like my scars very much. I used to talk about them all the time and my mom told me something really cool about my scars. She calls my scars beauty marks and told me they were evidence of God’s faithfulness, that He had spared my life and helped me survive something impossible. Now I choose to see my scars as beauty marks. My scars are my story. They give me a voice to help encourage others. Your scars have a story too. God has something very important for you to do with your story. That’s what makes your scars beautiful.

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