We can be BEAUTIFUL. We can have outer BEAUTY.
We must remember that just
as it is possible to be one of society’s most impressive people and be ugly in
the eyes of God, it is also possible to be an unknown in society and to be radiantly beautiful in His eyes.
Accessories for the BEAUTIFUL woman is not just jewelry and earrings. The world says that's beautiful. The world also thinks tummy tucks, laser and lipo is beautiful.
The Beatitudes is what is BEAUTIFUL to God:
Matthew 5:3-13
“ Blessed are the poor in spirit,
For theirs is
the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.
Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
For they shall obtain
mercy.
Blesses are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of God.
“Blessed are you when they revile
and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
Rejoice and be exceedingly glad,
for great is
your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
God says in 1
Timothy 2:9 Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable
apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or
pearls or costly attire,
Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is
vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
In the beginning God said in Genesis
1:31, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,
it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." When the Lord created the human
body, He pronounced that the way He created it was very good. The Lord
desires that our bodies be a reflection of His own beauty.
1 Peter 3:1-7 Likewise, wives, be subject to your
own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won
without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and
pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the
putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be
the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and
quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy
women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own
husbands, ...
Job
28:15 [Wisdom]
cannot be bought with the finest gold, nor can its price be weighed in silver. It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or sapphires. Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it, nor can it be
had for jewels
of gold. Coral and jasper are not worthy of mention; the
price of wisdom is beyond rubies.
Scripture is DRENCHED in text on BEAUTY. God values outer beauty in that we are to take care of ourselves, nurture the Temple of God, but when outer beauty becomes our IDOL, He is NOT pleased. God is MORE concerned with INNER beauty. All the qualities stated throughout, that is what makes you BEAUTIFUL. Satan was ADORNED in the BEAUTY of heaven and yet his sinned BECAUSE of his beauty. He used beauty for bad.
Beauty
should come from a pure & reverent life, from a gentle and quiet spirit.
I challenge you to make a LIST of all the BEAUTIFUL qualities that God sees BEAUTIFUL, and accessorize your life according to those standards.
Wisdom. Knowledge. Gentleness. Quiet Spirit.
I am challenged today to be a woman who wore PURPLE.
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