Real Beauty Comes From The Heart

1 Peter 3:3, 4

[3] Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. [4] You should be known for the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God.

Nearly everyone wants to be beautiful no matter what age they may be. It does not matter if we are single or married. Here is a scripture on how to reach that beauty. Three ways we obtain beauty but only one that is worth being beautiful.

You may be born beautiful.

You may spend money to make yourself beautiful. With money you can buy clothes, makeup, hair dressers, dentists, diet pills, hair coloring, exercise machines and plastic surgery. All these are within our reach but some are expensive, some are fads, some are superficial, some only last a while before you have to do it again and they do not fool those closest to you. I also want us to be aware that living a holy life does not mean being ugly, smelly, uncombed hair, having bad breath or wearing clothes that are out of place for the time we are in.

YOU MAY BECOME BEAUTIFUL. You should be known for the beauty that comes from within. This is what the Bible says beauty should come from. Beautiful people are those who act beautiful.

Not many of us are really born beautiful. The Bible says that we are born in sin and sin is not beautiful. Not many of us can keep up paying for beauty. A plain person can be transformed by the light of God’s word and the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. There is a story about a fourth grade teacher who asked her class to write “My mother is……” Almost all of them wrote “My mother is beautiful.” When the teacher had thought about the mothers that she had met through school activities, made her think that in the eyes of many they did not have outward beauty. She realized the children were talking about warmth, security and acceptance which they knew was beauty to them. Beauty comes more from what we are and do than what we look like.

We become beautiful through Christ. He does not change our nose, figure, hair color or make us taller or shorter but He comes into change our hearts and changes our character.

WHO I AM MAKES A DIFFERENCE

A teacher in New York decided to honor each of her seniors in high school by telling them the difference they each made. She called each student to the front of the class, one at a time. First she told each of them how they had made a difference to her and the class. Then she presented each of them with a blue ribbon imprinted with gold letters, which read, "Who I Am Makes a Difference. “Afterward the teacher decided to do a class project to see what kind of impact recognition would have on a community. She gave each of the students three more ribbons and instructed them to go out and spread this acknowledgment ceremony. Then they were to follow up on the results, see who honored whom and report back to the class in about a week. One of the boys in the class went to a junior executive in a nearby company and honored him for helping him with his career planning. He gave him a blue ribbon and put it on his shirt. Then he gave him two extra ribbons and said, "We’re doing a class project on recognition, and we’d like you to go out find somebody to honor, give them a blue ribbon, then give them the extra blue ribbons so they can acknowledge a third person to keep this acknowledgment ceremony going. Then please report back to me and tell me what happened." Later that day the junior executive went in to see his boss, who had been noted, by the way, as being kind of a grouchy fellow. He sat his boss down and he told him that he deeply admired him for being a creative genius. The boss seemed very surprised. The junior executive asked him if he would accept the gift of the blue ribbon and would he give him permission to put it on him. His surprised boss said, "Well, sure." The junior executive took the blue ribbon and placed it right on his boss’s jacket above his heart. As he gave him the last extra ribbon, he said, "Would you do me a favor? Would you take this extra ribbon