Encouragement:Beauty

Beauty defined by Merriam- Webster means: a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. If we were to ask someone what is the most beautiful thing about you, most likely they would say something of the outer appearance like their eyes, legs, lips, shape or etc. The world teaches and sells us that beauty is an outer thing when truly it is inner. True beauty comes from within, beauty is a person that is Kind, selfless, compassionate, loving, faithful, full of joy and etc. Beauty is a heart issue. Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. The word fleeting means it last for very short time. As we get older things will sag, we will get wrinkles and even gray, but what will remain is our hearts for God. They say Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I say if your beauty doesn’t catch the eye of the one, we should behold which is Christ Jesus we got a problem. Remember beauty is skin deep!

Here a few scriptures on Beauty:

· Proverbs 31:30 “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”

· 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 [a]incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.”

· 2 Corinthians 4:16, “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”

· Genesis 1:27, “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”

· Psalms 139:14, “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

· Song of Songs 4:7, “You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.”