BEAUTY
Proverbs 31:30 tells us, “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain…” Of the godless, vile deeds accomplished by beautiful women, there is no end in fiction or reality, literature or movie making.
The Bible says much about the woman with beauty and no virtue:
Proverbs 6:25 “Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.”
Proverbs 11:22 “As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.”
One sad result in the life of a girl with unusual beauty (yet no training and depth inside her) is that she comes to trust in her outward appearance for all of life, and in fact, except for shameful areas, not much of life depends on the outward appearance. As a matter of fact, very little depends on outward appearance, beside shameful deeds.
Ezekiel 16:15 “But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.”
The girl without inner development is forced to lean more heavily on appearance and flesh and less on the true beauty inside her. The inward spirit of a child of God should be beautiful.
Psalm 45:13 “The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.”
Our inner character becomes weak as we lean more upon the flesh for strength:
Ezekiel 16:30 “How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;”
Now to the point: our culture leans far too much on the appearance of the flesh. No one would question the beauty of Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan, but they were women of depth. Neither lady over emphasized her body, fired the White House cooks for using processed sugar, meddled in the school lunch system (which should be under state control, not federal), or pushed their way into the private lives of American homes (as recent First Lady did).
A foolish and shallow nation elects beauty, without considering the character and depth of belief inside the person. Of course, we all notice the outside, but it should not be long before we seek to discover something rich, beautiful, and honorable inside the men and women we elect to office.
Virtue and the fear of God, honor, and majesty are traits that carry a woman and her husband into the world of trust and responsibility. For what we are inside will shape what we do outside — that kind of ideology will affect legislation, policy, and the destiny of nations.
Proverbs 31:30 “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised."
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