Beauty of the ages.

This Sunday I went back to First Baptist were the preacher talked about suffering for the Lord. The verses were from 1 Peter 3: 8-22. This is were I found the verse that I want to talk about today. 1 Peter 3: 3-6 " Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful." Wow, the world's view of beauty is so distorted. We think that you have to have the right clothes, the right jewelry, or be the skinniest. But look at what Peter says beauty is... "your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight." No where in there does it say anything about outward appearances. But instead we should measure our beauty by what lies inside us, by our gentleness and our quiet spirits. Think of how different the world would be if that was how we viewed beauty. So the next time you look in the mirror think about the beauty of God and how he judges our beauty not this world.