My Celebrity Look Alike

There's a new trend on Facebook; find the celebrity you look like and post their profile picture as your own. I have mixed feelings about it. Half my friends have fairly legit look alikes, and the other half seem frustrated and lost that they don't have one.

Four of us battled this confusion today at the Pourhouse. We all got on myheritage.com and uploaded pictures of ourselves so the site could generate our very own celebrity twins. It was pretty hilarious, at least for a while. Then anger and frustration would ensue when we didn't get the celebrities we wanted, or felt they weren't attractive enough to do us justice. We scanned picture after picture of ourselves until we got the match we wanted.

After maybe ten unsuccessful attempts, my friends could rest easy and shut their laptops when they finally found a smile and angle that matched them with Brad Pitt or Kate Bosworth, and it left me wondering, what is this Facebook game really about?

It's not about finding a look alike, it's about finding someone the world finds attractive and having proof that we're not too far away from them. It's a game to fix our own insecurities and bolster our own egos.

This isn't to condemn my friends, I played into it, too. And I admit I got incredibly frustrated when picture after picture I put in the program spat back out random Asian celebrities I'd never heard of. Apparently I have squinty eyes. I wanted it to magically say I looked like Jennifer Aniston.

Still, by the end of the night, I played into the game and found my true celebrity look alike. I realized I do resemble someone famous. I'm made in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26-27). I bare His image. I'm not Jennifer Aniston. I'm me. I'm one of a kind. I was known by God before I was in the womb, and was uniquely formed by Him (Jer 1:5).

So, haven't found your celebrity look alike? Look up Jesus Christ. You resemble Him.

We're all imperfect. Human. Full of selfish motives and sinful desires. But long before God formed each of us He sent His Son to die on the cross as atonement for our sins. If you confess in your hearts that Jesus Christ is Lord He'll rock your world. Turn it upside down and give you the Holy Spirit so you can join me in my quest to spend each day striving to look more and more like Him.

Talk about a sweet doppelganger.