Praise the LORD!!
Many people in this world are very much concerned on how they look, worried about their appearance for various reasons. Most common reasons may be to boost their self esteem, impress others or other such things.
So we try every other beauty product available in the market, go for surgeries and do whatever we know to enhance our beauty and then try to show it off to the world. External beauty may not last as long as we live, once we are old our beauty is no more.
Sometimes we feel so low that we go down into depression and then we start asking God, why am I not beautiful?? Why am I not as beautiful as so and so.
Let us hear what the Bible says to such hearts:
1Peter 3:3-4 says "You should not use outward aids to make yourselves beautiful, such as the way you do your hair, or the jewellery you put on, or the dresses you wear. Instead, your beauty should consist of your true inner self, the ageless beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of the greatest value in God's sight."
Here the above verse emphasises on the need to look good in Gods sight rather than trying to look good to the world. The way god looks at his people is different from the way this world looks at us, as is evident from the following verse
1 Samuel 16:7 "For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
So we must try to enhance the beauty of our heart, our character which lasts long and which will take us much more closer to God. We must try to nourish our heart, our spirit such that our faces will shine just like Moses' face
Exodus 34:29 - "When Moses went down from Mount Sinai carrying the Ten Commandments, his face was shining because he had been speaking with the LORD"
It also doesn't mean that people who are beautiful are Gods people, the following verse makes it clear for us
Matthew 23:28 - "In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness."
Lastly, The verse which will give comfort to those who have this question, "Why am I not beautiful?', which makes everyone happy, which will let us know that we are his children is
Genesis 1:26-27 "Then God said,"And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us....So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female."
So what the bible says is we are made just like God himself. Lets give thanks to the Lord our God for making us in his own image and lets try to enhance the beauty of our heart.
