Human Barbie

I just saw this in the news; a woman , Valeria Lukyanova has been called a "human Barbie."

That’s right, the human Barbie. Apparently, Lukyanova spends her days primping, working out, cooking, tending to her Internet image and traveling "in her astral body." And her response to the commotion about her Barbie doll focus? "Many people say bad things about people who want to perfect themselves. It's hard work, but they dismiss it … This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement." Barbie? Perfection? Self-improvement? Eh…. Again, I cannot help but go back to what God has to say about idolatry… “What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.” Habakkuk 2:18-19 Nothing against Barbie; she’s harmless, in and of herself. But the power we can subscribe to her- or to any image, for that matter, well, that’s another story. How much money, time and effort should we put toward an image that is not directly of God when, inherently, we are, indeed, already made in His Image? “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God...” Genesis 1:27 We are told not to conform ourselves to the world; there is no true answer, nor transformation there. “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:2 We will not find what our souls desperately long for in anything apart from God. It’s time to stop going after the look of an inanimate image and truly embrace our incredible, God-given value already abounding! Let’s focus on and celebrate that!