Monday, May 26, 2008

How to feel beautiful?

This is a emotion that I struggle with often. I do not feel beautiful many days and have often pondered on the why and the what. Why do I have this dreadful feeling and What can I do about it? I know that this has everything to do with how I see myself internally. I know that if things do not change on the inside, no matter what outside changes I make, I would still not see beauty. So these pondering have lead me to these verses.

Proverbs 31:30---
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

1 Peter 3: 1-6 ---1 Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear. 3 Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel— 4 rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. 5 For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.

I need to remember that outward beauty is: fleeting, vain, not about clothing or jewerly.

But that real beauty is: FEAR of the LORD, chaste conduct, a gentle and quiet spirit, submitting to my husband, is hidden in the heart and being holy before God.

I pray that God will really help me have a full understanding of this and learn to know that my true beauty lies deep within and comes with being a daughter to the KING.

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