The Source of Beauty

October 1

We don’t usually think of the Bible as a reference book for beauty tips, but indeed, it is. There mention made even of the beauty of the feet of those who carry the good news of Christ to the lost (Isaiah 52:7).

It speaks as well of the ‘beauty of holiness’ in Psalm 110:3 and it addresses the vanity of beauty and the deceitfulness of the favor it brings its possessor in Proverbs 31:30.

Yet it does advise the reader on the way to achieve the essence of beauty—the kind of beauty that will not fade away with the passage of the years and the accompanying loss of youthful allure. It reveals the sure foundation for the kind of appearance that transcends mere physical endowment.

In Proverbs 15:13, the Word tells us, “A joyful heart makes a face cheerful, but a sad heart produces a broken spirit.” Joy is the source of beauty that transcends ones natural endowments and spreads abroad the cheerfulness of heart that radiates as absolute beauty into the un-loveliness we see around us.