Ever since I was a little girl, beauty was something I noticed each and every women strived towards gaining more of. Make up. Plastic Surgery. Highlights. The list could go on and on. Beauty is something that we have greatly confused. Somehow over the years, beauty has taken on this artificial mold. It is something now that some can only dream of fitting into. However, most people who try to achieve this certain “beauty” can never possibly live up to its standards based on the simple idea that the type of beauty our society conveys is near to impossible. Beauty is no longer something each and every person possesses but is something for the elite few. Those with “the right genes”. Yet, this is completely far from the truth.
“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight”
1 Peter 3:3-4
Unfading beauty. Now doesn’t that sound wonderful. Beauty that comes not from outward adornment. We don’t need to worry about what our hair looks like, whether we are skinny enough to fit into that dress, or whether our clothes match the right “style”. Because we have a heavenly Father who made each and every one of us in his image. The image of absolute perfection. Now, I don’t know about you, but this comes as a HUGE relief to me. To know that a gentle and quite spirit is what pure beauty looks like is completely contrary to what we have all been taught growing up by the media. If we place our standards in God’s eyes and not in the eyes of the media, we will begin to see that our true beauty, the kind of beauty that comes from an inward heart change, is the one we should all be striving towards. Because with God, each and every single one of you are beautiful. You are loved. God made you and he thinks you are absolutely gorgeous just the way He made you. God looks at the heart. He recognizes that we will all fall short of the glory of God. Yet, He wants us. He wants YOU. Each and every second of every day. There is not a moment that passes that God doesn’t want you. It doesn’t matter how many times you have messed up, He didn’t send his one and only Son down to die for all of the sins of mankind for nothing
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God will never regret saving you. You are precious and dearly dearly loved. You are BEAUTIFUL exactly the way you are and your true worth is placed in the Creator of the universe. Your true beauty comes from within. And let me just tell you… you are gorgeous.
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