Beauty

Beauty is something God is and that He shares with us. God is perfect and perfectly beautiful. Therefore everything He does is beautiful and perfect. He makes us beautiful and the world around us gorgeous and perfect. God wants to share that beauty with us.

What makes us beautiful?

God made us. He created us with His own breath and hands.

Then the Lord God formed a man from the 

dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” (Genesis 2:7-9, 22, 23 NIV).

Why did God make us beautiful?

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10 NIV)

What beauty matters more our hearts or outside? 

The beauty of the heart matters more. Our outside beauty won't save us. God judges the heart. The heart is a special place for God to work in us.

Those who trust in themselves are fools, but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe. (Proverbs 28:26 NIV).

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (Psalm 139:14 NIV).

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. (Romans 1:29-32 NIV).

*Our hearts are to remain pure and dedicated to God. We need to worship Him and praise Him for how He has made us. When we read Gods word and sing songs of praises to Him it fills our hearts with Him. When our hearts are full of Him they are beautiful.

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7 NIV).

What is defined as beauty in Gods eyes?

Well God says sin is ugly so anything not sin is beautiful.

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. (2 Timothy 2:15, 16 NIV).

Beauty is trying to be like God and striving towards that each day! How can we try to be like God?

Who are we?

Children of a king! The Lord sits on a throne and has all the most beautiful things in the world. He shares and blesses us with those things. He makes us more beautiful each day.

How does the bible say we are to be beautiful?

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear. (1 Peter 3:3-6 NIV).

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 NIV).

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. (2 Corinthians 4:16 NIV).

Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame. The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (Psalm 34:5, 15-18 NIV).

Beauty-having or possessing qualities that give pleasure to someone. Our beauty should give pleasure to God!