How do you define beauty? I challenge you to evaluate the decades of marketing image enhancements and entertainment presentations of what beauty should look like. Furthermore, I suggest that companies have made BILLIONS of dollars telling, women in particular, that they too can look like the false image if they buy certain products or have specific surgeries.
Social media has encouraged this ungodly narrative by giving individuals “likes’ when they post an image. Society has become a culture that ways how significant an individual is by how many people validate ones’ lifestyle.

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

What if God thought you were ugly? What would godly ugly look like? No fear of the Lord. God praises the women who fear him, not the ones who get their butts bigger their breast made higher and their abdomens flatter.

Are you beautiful? Are you vain? The dictionary in my writing program defines vain as”characteristic of false pride;having an exaggerated sense of self-importance;”. Is that you? Do you have pride in how you look? Is your desire to please God greater than your need to look good? Do you “fear” not pleasing God?

Titus 2:3-5 (KJV)
3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Do you consider yourself a Christian? Do you spend money making sure your outward appearance look good based on worldly standards? Do you really care what other people say about how you look? More than God’s opinion? He “makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity” (see below)

Psalm 39:7-11 (KJV)
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Physical beauty, no matter how much money you spend on looking good, is temporary. Have you ever seen the famous people who you thought were beautiful as a child without their makeup? I asked Google Ai “Does plastic surgery last forever” it’s response:
“No, plastic surgery is generally not permanent. While the results of some procedures may last for many years, the body’s natural aging process and other factors can eventually cause changes in appearance”

If you think make-up, skin tight clothes and plastic surgery are needed to get acceptance, validation or a husband, you have a problem. It is more important to focus on your personal relationship with God through Jesus the Son of God than physical appearances because: “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”
I am not saying you should not wear make-up. What I am trying to point out to you God’s way is not the world’s way and the world cannot keep you out of hell or get you into heaven.

WRITTEN BY: Marsha L Floyd
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