Happy Birthday Nika
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Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,
But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
What is charm?
A quality that produces delight resulting in people admiring a person. It is a something in the person’s character and personality resulting in being pleasant to be with. As a person puts out charm, others respond to it.
What is beauty?
Beauty can come from two sources: External and internal.
The external is produced from the internal. However the external can be pretentious, fake or made up. But what is internal is unchangeable. It will manifest one way or the other.
Beauty is admirable and desirable. That’s why women want to be beautiful and men want to be handsome. It attracts, it brings attention and man want’s attention and lot’s of it.
With beauty you can get rich, powerful and popular. That’s why it’s highly coveted. At the same time ugliness can make you rich and popular. In the movie industry somebody has to play that role. Either make up will do it or the natural will do it. Questions is which would rather be. Beautiful and rich or ugly and rich.
Man uses beauty and charm to get the attention and praise, but what does the bible say about this subject.
But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
The beginning of wisdom...
But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
The biblical standard of beauty is measured or defined by how much you know God.
Who are you in light of who God is?
Beauty is found in our relationship with God and how you are living it.
Women put on make up to enhance their beauty other to correct it.
But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’ ”
Beauty is also affected by one’s diet.
Anyone
Disease finds it way to destroy beauty.
But how do we stay spiritually healthy?
Steady diet of God’s word.
Challenge to Nika:
Have a steady of God’s word.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2
todays’ society and the standard of this world tempt you to choose temporary beauty. (As we get older gravity will manifest itself and no amount of plastic surgery will fix it.)
Choose what is eternal, choose what is true - beauty that is from a close relationship with God.
The closer your walk with Him the more you become like Him.
2. Honor and love your family, commandment #5
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
Exodus
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
3. Share God’s love by sharing Christ with them.
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
