Beauty is something that is fleeting. Most people are neither born incredibly attractive nor born incredibly ugly. Most people are just average looking. We can undergo various medical and cosmetic procedures that will make us look more physically attractive. But as the saying goes, beauty is only skin deep. Proverbs 31:30 states, "Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised." God encourages us to look at the beauty of the heart, rather than simply focusing on outward beauty.
Although we should not be expressly focusing on our own outward beauty, God did design us to appreciate beauty in the many forms it takes. Some see beauty in majestic mountains, while others find beauty in paintings, photography, dance, or music.
Every portrait of beauty that we see here on earth is just a glimpse of the beauty possessed by God. We dwell in the constant presence of God's beauty, even here on earth. God is beautiful, and our beautiful God dwells is us in the form of the Holy Spirit. So, through Christ, we are made beautiful. J.R. Miller writes: "One other feature of the beauty of the Lord...is moral purity...That the beauty of the Lord our God may be on us, that the winning charm of God's loveliness may shine in the feature of our lives which men can see- we must first have the divine beauty within us. A holy heart will in time transfigure all the life. And the only way to have a holy heart-is to have Christ within!"
Because God dwells with us, because His presence is with us even now, He makes us beautiful before Him. We are beautiful because Christ who lives in us is beautiful.
Living Life
Friday, August 26, 2011
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