Beauty in our Maker's eyes

 

**We all want to be beautiful. There is nothing wrong with wanting beauty, unless we are obsessive in making that our main goal. See in Hollywood, image is everything, but do you notice that the price of beauty in their eyes physically is damaging their very soul. Pressure to look good on T.V. and striving to make a career is temporary, because in Hollywood, your famous one day, then forgotten the next when someone better in their eyes come along. (‘The next great thing’-As you would call it.) See God created us in His image, so in His eyes we are precious gifts, beautiful. See in the bible, those who live a life with the Lord, and fears Him, putting him their first priority, shows the true beauty in His eyes. Where others seek physical beauty, God looks for inner beauty (a clean vessal- that will therefore glow on the outside, seeing God’s light in them.) **

Proverbs 31:30

“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”

1 Peter 3:3-4

“Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”

**We should not be so obsessed by fashion, but neither should we be so unconcerned that we do not bother to care for ourselves. Hygiene, neatness, and grooming are important, but even more important are a person’s attitude and spirit. True beauty begins inside. A beautiful woman or handsome man loses their glow when they are mean-spirited, snooty, whiny, critical, negative, grouchy, unkind, and the list can go on. Beauty is more than what we look at. Beauty is reflected from the inside. Looks are deceiving at times; because as you see, there are beautiful people out there, but are ugly on the inside, and the very ones people see as unattractive are beautiful on the inside. Remember, God had told Samuel when He was searching for Israel’s next king, to not look on stature and appearance. But the person God was looking for (David), he had seen his heart. **

1 Samuel 16:7

“But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”

**Saul (Israel’s current king at that time), was tall and handsome; he was an impressive looking man. Samuel may have been trying to find someone who looked like Saul to be Israel’s next king, but God warned him against judging by appearance alone. When people judge by outward appearance, they may overlook individuals who lack the particular qualities society currently admires. But appearance doesn’t reveal what people are really like or their true value. Fortunately, God judges by faith and character, not appearance. And because only God can see on the inside, only he can accurately judge people. Most people spend hours each week maintaining their outward appearance; they should do even more to develop their inner character. While everyone can see your face, only you and God know what your heart really looks like. **

--When we are full of God, His beauty will shine through us. There is a song that says, ‘Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me.’ We need to make that our prayer and goal.—

Romans 10:15

“And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”

Isaiah 52:7

“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!”

*As we surrender to God to help us develop an inner beauty, and we work on it every day, we will become women of beauty. *

Acts 4:13

“Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.”

*The beauty of Jesus will be shining through us. We will be beautiful In God’s sight, and people will want to be around us. *

1 Chronicles 16:29

“Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.”