I was watching TV the other night and a commercial came on…I think I was doing something on my phone but the words that were said caught my attention. It was a Neutrogena makeup commercial starring Jennifer Garner. Here is what it said;
“There’s a lot of beautiful makeup out there to cover up flaws and make skin look pretty. But there is one so clever it looks better even after you take it off.”
The phrase that caught me was “makeup to cover up flaws.” How much of our life do we go along looking for things to cover up our flaws? Maybe its makeup, maybe its plastic surgery, maybe its weight loss; it could be a flaw in our personality that causes us to act differently or we act out to cover up our flaw. Addictions are another thing that people use to deal with flaws.
Seriously, think about it though; how much do we really try to cover up our flaws?? What if we took those flaws and imperfections and gave them to Jesus? After all, we are supposed to lay down all of ourselves to Him, I’m pretty sure this includes our flaws. There’s grace in Him, there is love.
There’s this song by Gungor called Beautiful Things; it simply says “you make beautiful things out of dust.” It’s not easy to just wake up one morning, look at our imperfections and say, yeah God…
God makes beautiful things; maybe there are more beautiful things out there that we see. I’m pretty sure if you asked People magazines hottest person of the year if they had flaws and imperfections, I’m sure they would give you a list. For them, Photoshop has helped cover those but at the end of the day they are still flawed and imperfect.
No matter what we do, we are all flawed and have imperfections, but we have a God who wants to cover those imperfections. Just remember there is still beauty in the imperfect.
