extravagant love come down

Haha. Two posts in a row. Couldn’t help it. Superchic[k]’s songs raWk BIG TIME! (For those who don’t know Superchic[k], they are a Christian band made up of 4 guys and 2 girls. They’ve written many songs with Christian themes for the public.)

COURAGE
by Superchic[k]

I told another lie today
And I got through this day
No one saw through my games
I know the right words to say
Like “I don’t feel well”
“I ate before I came”

Then someone tells me how good I look
and for a moment
For a moment I am happy
But when I’m alone
No one hears me cry

I need you to know
I’m not through the night
Some days I’m still fighting to walk towards the light
I need you to know
That we’ll be okay
Together we can make it through another day

I don’t know the first time I felt unbeautiful
The day I chose not to eat
What I do know is how I changed my life forever
I know I should know better
There are days when I’m okay
And for a moment
For a moment I find hope
But there are days when I’m not okay
And I need Your help
So I’m letting go

I need you to know
I’m not through the night
Some days I’m still fighting to walk towards the light
I need you to know
That we’ll be okay
Together we can make it through another day

You should know you’re not on your own
These secrets are walls that keep us alone

I don’t know when but what I know now
Together we’ll make it through somehow

The lyrics to this song are so honest. The bare bare truth. Even though I’m not anorexic or bulimic, this is an issue that many girls have been dealing with. To be honest, I’ve tried purging my food a few times before a couple of years back. It was not a good experience yet many girls have said that this gives them a sense of control over what they allow into their body. I can relate to this fight of accepting our self-image, just the way we are, just the way He created us beautifully. Why do we have to deal with such issues? Lies, lies, lies that mr s.a. tan has put in our way. We need to stand up and fight with the sword of the Spirit. Rebuke these lies, lies, lies. It’s not true that you are ugly. He made you beautiful. It’s not true that you are worthless. He bought you back with a heavy price. His Son on the Cross. It’s not true that God does not love you. He thinks about you each and everyday. A couple of favorite verses from the book of Psalms:

Psalm 139:1-2

O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. (He knows when you sit down and stand up, and He knows your thoughts and pain and all your feelings.)

Psalm 139:13-15

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (He has made every of His princesses beautiful, and that, my gal pals, includes you.)

15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth…

Psalm 139:17-18

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.

Can you imagine? He thinks so much about you everyday that if you were to count all of his thoughts about you would OUTNUMBER all the grains of sand on every beach on Earth!! I know my God loves me much more than anything. He loves each and every one of His precious daughters.

[I'm pretending you are not here.]