Appearing Beautiful or Being Beautiful
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Beautiful Women
1 Peter 3:4 says, "Women are to have a quiet spirit." The Greek word there means, undisturbed. Are you disturbed? It's not beautiful. What does God find beautiful or ugly? When you're disturbed, upset, or angry, it's not a beautiful thing. When you're a bitter person, filled with fear, discontent, frustrated, and never satisfied, that's not beautiful. A person who's in conflict with others, jealous, full of self-pity, always worrying, that's not beautiful either. All these things are different ways of being disturbed. God calls us to have an undisturbed spirit. Start becoming truly beautiful by adorning yourself with an undisturbed spirit of peace, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, contentment and blessing. We're all called to be part of the bride. Cultivate a spirit that doesn't get upset so easily, doesn't get anxious, or bent out of shape, full of crisis, and fearful. Keep yourself in Messiah's shalom by resting in His love. You'll not only have peace, blessings, and contentment, but it'll be something else. You'll be beautiful to God.

Today's Mission
Today seek not to look beautiful - but to be truly beautiful in God's Spirit.

1 Peter 3:4
4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Cultivate Inner Beauty
The same goes for you wives: Be good wives to your husbands, responsive to their needs. There are husbands who, indifferent as they are to any words about God, will be captivated by your life of holy beauty. What matters is not your outer appearance—the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes—but your inner disposition.

Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in. The holy women of old were beautiful before God that way, and were good, loyal wives to their husbands. Sarah, for instance, taking care of Abraham, would address him as “my dear husband.” You’ll be true daughters of Sarah if you do the same, unanxious and unintimidated.

HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND WEEKEND!!