Beauty

1 Peter 3:3-4

Do not let your adornment be merely outward, arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel, rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Beauty is not only skin deep, it goes much further than that.

Beauty should go right down to our heart.

Your heart is where all of your beauty lives.

You can have a beautiful face, nice figure and always dressed in the latest styles and fashion, but, if your heart is not right, then your beauty is not real. If your heart is pure and humble, it will shine on your face.

God's word tells us that we as women do not need to wear gold jewelry, braided hair and fine clothing to dress up our outward appearance.

What we need to do is work on our inner self.

We need to work on humbling ourselves (e.g. being more thoughtful of others), and also work on quieting ourselves (e.g. refrain from gossip) and this will show our worthiness to our Heavenly Father.

A lot of times we feel that we should 'dress up' our self-esteem. We should be a perfectionist, making sure that our shoes, hat, purse and outfit are all matching and we are wearing the correct accessories.
All of this will not get us into the kingdom of Heaven. God loves us just the way we are, know matter what our appearance. He loves us unconditionally.

The only thing that God is concerned about, is our hearts.

All we need to do is purify our hearts and our beauty will shine through and through. If we get God's word in our mind and heart every day, then we would see the lines underneath our eyes just diminish.

Instead of hiding behind expensive make-up and jewelry, simply pick up the word of God, get focus, read and act out His word, then we would see our beauty go 'heart deep'.

BEAUTY was taken from the book:
'My Feelings For You; Inspirational Thoughts For Comfort'
written by; Pamela Adderley