Something Beautiful
“I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands,
without wrath and doubting. In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in
modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or
gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing
godliness) with good works.” (1 Timothy 2:8-10)
Today’s Morsel: One of the things
about beauty is that it comes from the inside out. A person’s character
is what makes them beautiful. But I am afraid that many folks allow the
world to tell them what beauty is and what it looks like. From the time
that children are born, the world tells parents what they must do to make their
children beautiful, and they give in to it and they set their children up for
failure for the rest of their lives, causing them to live with guilt. The
child never seems to feel they measure up to what the world calls beautiful or
sadly what their parent expects. Satan has a trap. Remember,
he’s the god of this world. You must teach your children that their
beauty is found in their character, not their looks. Paul told Timothy
that, “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in
modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or
gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing
godliness) with good works.” The words shamefacedness means honor and
respect. While sobriety means sound-mind and self-control. When
women adorn themselves in modest apparel that reveals that they have honor and
respect for themselves, and they possess sound judgment and temperance, that’s
beauty. A persons beauty is found in their identity in
Christ.
Sing: Something beautiful, something
good; all my confusion Jesus understood. All I had to offer Him was
brokenness and strife, but He made something beautiful out of my life.
Thought For Today: Remember, beauty is
only skin deep.
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