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.
The manifest
SOURCE of our joy as believers is “the JOY of the LORD,” and Nehemiah 8:10
tells us that the joy of HIM, the joy of the ONE who is our SAVIOR, is our
strength.
With HIS joy
and HIS salvation, we are equipped to walk in the beauty of the glory of the holiness
of Christ (II Chronicles 16:29) who places HIS righteousness upon us and crowns
us with HIS loveliness.
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