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If I’m not to be concerned with beauty as the world defines it,
how much should I care about clothes and looking attractive? Is
it wrong to feel butterflies when a man tells me I’m beautiful?
It seems that each of your questions is driving me deeper into
the mysteries of God. I’ve pondered this one for many weeks, and
have written several “false start” answers. I think if we can
find God’s perspective on beauty, we will have uncovered a major key to
the healing He desires us to have.
One thing I’m sure of: women
are designed to be beautiful, and men are designed to appreciate their
beauty. God, being our designer, must have had a good reason for
making us this way. We also know that our Enemy has put a LOT of
effort into wrecking His plan, which is another clue that beauty is
very significant.
I’m going to start with an idea that might
surprise you, but stay with me and I think you’ll understand why I
believe it’s true. Beauty gives us value. In fact,
I’ll go so far as to say that a woman’s beauty is one of the most
important aspects of her existence. And I’m not just talking
about a beautiful attitude or beautiful deeds. I’m talking about
how she looks.
Okay, turn off those alarm bells and put down the
red flags. It’s entirely possible that all you’ve ever
encountered is the Enemy’s abuse of God’s plan. Our world is
obsessed with what I described earlier as counterfeit or artificial
beauty, so much so that many of us have never spent much time with the
real thing.
I don’t think any of us would deny that God is in
the beauty business. Roses, sunsets, kittens, jewels, galaxies,
peacock feathers, rainbows…the list goes on forever. Should it
surprise us that the grand finale of creation, a woman, was His most
beautiful work of all?
What exactly makes a woman
beautiful? Well, part of it is color: her hair, her eyes, her
lips, her complexion. Part of it is texture: the smoothness of
her skin, the shimmering flow of her hair, the glow of her eyes.
Part of it is shape. Part of it is sound, her voice. Part
of it is her warmth and grace and softness. And part of it is
simply mystery.
I want you to listen very carefully to the next thing I have to say (and I’m talking both to you women and to you men). All
women have some beauty. No woman is entirely beautiful. We
each, guys and girls, can choose to think about what is beautiful or we
can choose to think about what isn’t.
Sounds easy enough,
but it’s one of the primary ways our Enemy gets us off-track. If
you’re a female, I can almost guarantee that the first thing you see
when you look in your mirror is whatever you’re NOT pleased with.
Something is wrong with your hair, your skin, your face, your
figure…and you turn away discouraged. You begin to plan a way to
fix it (new makeup, a diet, new clothes, even surgery). But guess
what? Many dollars and hours and aches later, you will STILL be
able to find something wrong in that mirror. Maybe you need a new
mirror? :o)
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