Hearts Vs. Faces

The Wall Street Journal reports that "good looking people are favored for hiring too earn higher salaries than their less attractive colleagues." 

Isn't it ironic that nosotros humans, made inward the icon of God, focus too hence much on aspects of humanness that convey niggling to produce amongst God's image? 

But God doesn't estimate past times looks at all. 

Even the godly Samuel idea God would direct the most attractive human being to endure the adjacent king. "But the LORD said to Samuel, 'Do non reckon his appearance or his height, for I convey rejected him. The LORD does non await at the things people await at. People await at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.'” (1 Samuel 16:7)

We can't all endure beautiful on the outside, but nosotros convey equal chance to endure beautiful on the inside. 

And the closer nosotros larn to the Lord, the to a greater extent than beautiful nosotros become. 

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The God Of Pleasing Practicality

I'm smitten amongst the beauty of Republic of Croatia -- the agency God carved rugged mountains adjacent to turquoise waters, together with the agency the pleasant clouds together with Sun dissolve into iridescent sunsets each evening. 

Whenever nosotros visit, I get got hundreds of photos trying to capture these images together with then pleasing to my eyes. 

While reading Genesis 2, I noticed something I'd never pondered before: God created "trees that were pleasing to the optic together with proficient for food" (verse 9). 

The God of the universe is non alone practical, but He wants us to relish the sources of His provision, making them "pleasing to the eye," sweetness to the taste, fragrant to the smell, interesting to the touch, melodic to the ear. 

That sounds similar a unproblematic truth, but it's not. 

We could get got a rattling unlike globe if it were exactly practical. 

But nosotros get got an awe-inspiring, beauty-creating, multi-purposing God.

How God Makes Us Beautiful On The Inside

God makes us beautiful on the inside...

The average adult woman spends $13,000 on cosmetics during her lifetime fifty-fifty though cosmetics simply comprehend outward flaws.

But what close inner flaws similar selfishness, bitterness, self-pity, or impatience?

We're non all born alongside the same total of outward beauty, as well as what nosotros bring fades as nosotros age. But inner beauty is as available to all of us.

"Your beauty should non come upward from outward adornment ... Instead, it should endure that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle as well as placidity spirit, which is of dandy worth inwards God’s sight." 1 Peter 3:3-4

Here's exactly about skilful "inner-beauty treatments":

1. Devoting ourselves to prayer (Colossians 4:2).

2. Memorizing Scripture verses (Psalm 119:11).

3. Devoting ourselves to God's purposes (Ephesians 2:10; 1 Timothy 5:9-10).

4. Practicing Gratefulness (1 Thessalonians 5:18).

Improving our inner beauty has to a greater extent than value than improving our appearance, because the changes are to a greater extent than than pare deep as well as they bring eternal benefits. 

P.S. Men take away to educate their inner beauty too!

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Natural Wrinkle Prevention - Philippians 4:8-9

A grateful pump is the best cosmetic...

Since 1997, cosmetic procedures create got increased 155%, in addition to ane of the most pop is Botox injections to take away wrinkles. (1) 

Wrinkles spill out when deoxyribonucleic acid is damaged past times aging. But deoxyribonucleic acid is too damaged past times stress.

Remarkably, studies demo that people who convey their circumstances in addition to brand the best of them don't endure deoxyribonucleic acid stress damage!(2)

That’s why nosotros postulate “Philippians 4:8,9 Therapy" prescribed past times the prisoner Paul who lived nether constant stress. 

“whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is first-class or praiseworthy—think virtually such things…And the God of peace volition live alongside you.” (Philippians 4:8-9)

Our best defence against early on aging is deliberate focus on our blessings in addition to God’s promises. Reminding ourselves of our blessings gives us the sort of perspective that makes us to a greater extent than beautiful within in addition to out! 

When y'all kickoff feeling fearful or depressed, campaign it...it works!

1-Plastic surgical operation research

2-Aging: The Stress Factor past times Brian Dakss, CBS News

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