This verse is the prayer of my heart. Just as David knew he couldn’t defeat temptation on his own, neither can we. In this verse, he was speaking of all things “Worldly” but I know for me specifically the word “vanity” truly speaks of the need for acceptance and love. This need led me down a very dark and painful past. One filled with heartache and brokenness and nothing satisfying the greatest needs I had. I kept trying to look better, be better, be prettier, be skinnier, be fitter, be blonder, be wittier; so that maybe, by some glimmer of hope, i’d be loved and accepted.

I chased vanity to its fullest extent, only to fill emptier than I began. It was only through the recognition that God offered me more than anything of this world, and He loved me unconditionally, that my ways were revived in Him.

This is the absolute prayer of my heart; that each morning God would turn my eyes off of myself and revive me in His ways. That my eyes would focus on the cross instead of the mirror, the scale, or my waist. That the very things that matter to God would matter to me. And that I would find an abundance of His love and acceptance, when my eyes are turned towards Him.

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