Jordan Hippler

For our God [is indeed] a consuming fire.

Society has a messed up view of beauty. It’s kind of making me mad… because it’s been getting to me lately. Women naturally struggle with comparing themselves to each other. It often starts at a young age… I remember some of my friends telling me about how when they were younger they’d stand in front of mirrors and compare body shapes…. at very young ages. It starts with the small things… most stuff does, right?

Her hair is straighter.      Her legs don’t rub together when she walks.

Her eyes are brighter.     She’s more tan.

Her hair is curlier.         She has bigger boobs.

Her eyes are darker.      She has cuter freckles.

She’s smarter.               She’s skinnier.

                         ………………………………….   I’m not good enough.

Most of us probably have that mentality starting in elementary school. Maybe not ALL of these at that young of an age, but the comparison/inadequacy mindset is definitely prominent.

These are all Satan’s lies. He knows that if we can start believing the lie that we are inadequate, then we will limit the work we allow ourselves to do for the Kingdom of God. We won’t feel capable or worthy of doing anything big.

I get this feeling a lot, and sometimes it starts to push my dreams of ministry to the back burner. I can’t keep feeding the lies of the enemy. Let all of Hell tremble…. cause Jesus conquered the lies and defeated the enemy. HA. I know that the God of peace crushes Satan underneath His feet. DOUBLE HA. :)

I know… it’s a New Year and people have resolutions and stuff like that… but this is a lifelong battle… for all of us.

Hold each other accountable.

Stop comparing.

Stop pointing out flaws, and encourage the positives.

Ladies, you are not beautiful based on what society says. Those standards are unattainable. Rest in the fact that you are beautiful because YOU are God’s MASTERPIECE. You were created pure, perfect and completely lovely in His sight.

It doesn’t take a man to tell you that you’re beautiful. Open up the Word of God and read it yourself.

“You are altogether beautiful, my darling, beautiful in EVERY way.”

                                        - Song of Songs 4:7

Don’t believe you’re beautiful? You’re not alone. Even the seemingly most confident women of the world feel inadequate  and ugly if they don’t allow God to define their beauty.

Want to feel beautiful?

Let God show you what true beauty is.

Don’t know how to do that?

Dig in the Word and spend time with your creator…. that will start to make the inside beautiful. And inner beauty is reflected on the outside.

Stay beautiful,

Jordan   <3

One year ago TODAY (10/13/2010), I CHOSE FREEDOM. I walked into the light. I walked into MERCY. I had no hope for my future. I was a lost and broken girl. I was hurt. I was confused. But,  God is bigger. God’s plans were bigger. For seventeen years I tried doing it on my own. I had my “salvation.” But the prayer of salvation that I prayed at such a young age was merely words. It was my “Get out of hell” card. I had a legalistic view of God… I knew salvation wasn’t based on works, but at the same time, I struggled with perfectionism. The desire deep down to have it all together all the time was too much to handle.

I was fake.

I was a hypocrite.

I was a liar.

I was a manipulator.

I was a whore.

I was hurt.

I was closed off.

But, I entered into a world of peace. I found that salvation was based not on anything that I could ever do, but it was about what was done for me, on the cross. When you allow yourself to experience the love and shalom of God, that true inner peace place found only in Him… there’s NOTHING like it. 

I’m walking in freedom.

You can’t walk in freedom until you know what you’ve been set free FROM. A lot of people don’t understand sin and the fact that it separates you from God. God created you. BAM. He loves you. He wants to spend eternity with you in perfect fellowship. That’s why he sent his son, Jesus as an atoning sacrifice to PAY for your soul. The only thing that can pay for a sinful soul is an UN-SINFUL soul. Because truly, what’s the difference between one sinner and another? Sin is sin in the eyes of the Holy one. By Jesus’ death and resurrection we have the opportunity to receive eternal life. To receive freedom. When Jesus took his last breath, HE TORE THE VEIL. The curtain was torn. It was thick stuff. Kind of representing all the sin he just died for…. but he breathed his last with your face on his mind. That curtain split… making a way for us to enter the place- the holy of holies… where we may dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

This was intended to be about my journey over the past year… what God has done for me… but I blog about that all the time. I never get tired of talking about it, don’t have me mistaken. But I know that I probably just rambled about salvation because someone out there needed to hear it. Maybe you knew all of that.. but it helped you understand it.

A year ago… I went to Mercy Ministries.

(www.mercyministries.org) (<—- see what they’re about. The most legit place in the world.)

Ask me about my story.

Ask me about what God has redeemed.

I’m pure.

I’m beautiful.

I’m a daughter of the King.

I’m worth it.

I’m loveable.

He has given me beauty for ashes.

He has put a new song in my soul, and I sing for HIM now.

I’ll probably blog again later about how significant this day is to me… but I need to get to bed.

Tomorrow I’m going to be serving the Lord and other people with a group from my college. We will be doing construction, so I need rest!

A New CREATION In Christ,

Jordan

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