Cultivating Beauty… 🩷

🩷🩷🩷From my Mother: 🩷🩷🩷

God’s definition of beauty stands in stark contrast to the way our culture defines beauty. 

👉Our culture defines beauty by how we look on the outside. 

✝️ God defines beauty by what we are like on the inside.

👉Our culture puts forth a standard of beauty that is unattainable by most. 

✝️ God puts forth a standard of beauty to which we can all attain if we just respond to His work of grace in our lives.

👉Our culture encourages women to cultivate a beauty that is skin deep. 

✝️ God tells us to pursue an inner beauty of great worth.

👉Our culture encourages women to cultivate a beauty that will only last for a brief time. 

✝️ God encourages women to cultivate a beauty that will never fade and that will only grow more attractive with the passing of time.

👉Our culture calls us to cultivate a beauty that impresses others. 

✝️ God summons us to cultivate a beauty that is first and foremost for His eyes.

👉Our culture entices us to aspire to the beauty of the latest glamorous model or this season’s most popular actress. 

✝️ God bids us to aspire to the beauty of the holy women in the past who put their hope in God.

🌸 Do you see the difference? The beauty our culture esteems may turn some heads, but the beauty God calls us to cultivate will make a lasting impact. 

When a physically attractive woman walks by, we notice—men particularly! But that’s the end of it. Her beauty makes a fleeting, momentary impression. 

💎 But a woman who cultivates inner beauty, who fears God and lives to serve others, makes a difference in people’s lives. Her beauty makes a lasting impact on the lives she touches. Godly, inner beauty makes an indelible mark on the lives of others and glorifies God.