Uggh... this getting-older stuff isn't that much fun. Whatever outer beauty I may have had, it's going, going...GONE! hahahahaha.
I am not writing this post for people to comment "No, Joy, you are pretty." Please don't. I am writing this because something hit me.
The point is this. It helps me to realize more and more that beauty IS fleeting. Just like The Word says.
I sat for a few minutes and thought this: "I'm so glad that I'm not a "rare beauty" because, if I was, this aging process would be very hard."
You see, I can still be and feel beautiful because of WHO Jesus has made of me, NOT because of what I look like. Through my attitude and love for others, I can be as beautiful as I want to be.
So, ladies, put those mirrors away. :-) ...get in the Word, find out what God says about beauty and be beautiful. You don't need surgery, you don't need a new hairstyle or a pound of make-up. You simply need the Holy Spirit ("the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." - Galatians 5:22-23)
Last Thought...
Do you know what is TRULY beautiful? Holiness...
I Chronicles 16:29; 20:21; Psalms 29:2; 96:9
I am not writing this post for people to comment "No, Joy, you are pretty." Please don't. I am writing this because something hit me.
The point is this. It helps me to realize more and more that beauty IS fleeting. Just like The Word says.
I sat for a few minutes and thought this: "I'm so glad that I'm not a "rare beauty" because, if I was, this aging process would be very hard."
You see, I can still be and feel beautiful because of WHO Jesus has made of me, NOT because of what I look like. Through my attitude and love for others, I can be as beautiful as I want to be.
So, ladies, put those mirrors away. :-) ...get in the Word, find out what God says about beauty and be beautiful. You don't need surgery, you don't need a new hairstyle or a pound of make-up. You simply need the Holy Spirit ("the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." - Galatians 5:22-23)
BEAUTY:
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 the 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."
Prov 31:30 - "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised."Last Thought...
Do you know what is TRULY beautiful? Holiness...
I Chronicles 16:29; 20:21; Psalms 29:2; 96:9
*Take some time to study Holiness and those verses and apply that to your life.*
You might be in your physical prime. You might be a few years past that, but you can always at your Spiritual PRIME regarding true beauty - Rejoicing in the Present.
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