When I
was a kid, I had a hero: Pete Maravich, a high-scoring basketball player who
handled the ball like a magician.
Problem
was, my desire to be like Pistol Pete blocked my satisfaction with who God made
me to be. When I realized I could never play like Pete, I grew discouraged. I
even quit my college team briefly because I couldn’t measure up to the Maravich
standard.
Kids
still do that kind of thing. They grow unhappy with who God made them to be
because they measure themselves by their “perfect” heroes.
Singer
Jonny Diaz recognized this and wrote a song called “More Beautiful You.” The
song begins: “Little girl fourteen flipping through a magazine; says she wants
to look that way.” Some young girls wish they could be like Disney star Selena
Gomez or another star the way I wanted to be like Maravich. Diaz sings, “There
could never be a more beautiful you; don’t buy the lies . . . ; you were made
to fill a purpose that only you could do.” Diaz is saying what another
songwriter said under the inspiration of God thousands of years ago: “[We are]
fearfully and wonderfully made” (Ps. 139:14).
God made us the way He wants us to be. Believe it. There could never be a more beautiful you.
