Like Everyone Around Me

I ask my mom for money she don´t really have to buy me clothes and shoes to impress everyone around me. I spend an hour each day painting my face and smoothing my hair to look just like everyone around me. My Bible rests on my nightstand, no time to read or pray but I have time to watch the shows and bop to the music of everyone around me. I found a website with pictures of everything I want and another one from a ministry with pictures of children who have no shoes. They wear tattered clothes and rejoice for a bowl of rice, but their smiles glowed with a beauty unlike everyone around me. It struck me. I don´t rejoice; I want. I´m anxious, disconten, jealous and insecure. I suddenly remembered, that I was one of them. I changed myself  to be like everyone around me. I changed my happiness and joy to be like everyone around me. I tried to be like everyone around me. I tried to be someone who was not me. I fell to my knees and cried in pain. I let the Holy Spirit speak to me, "Be like me; Be like me," And suddenly I didn´t want to be like everyone around me. I want to be like Him. 

 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.                                                                                                                                                                    2 Corinthians 3:18

God bless you!