Lasting Beauty - pgs 77-82
Realize
1. Some of the most physically beautiful women are also extremely miserable. Why doesn't physical beauty necessarily make a woman happy?
2. Read 1 Samuel 16:7. What does it mean that God looks at people's hearts?
Reflect
3. How would you compare the time and effort you invest in your physical appearance with the time and effort you put into developing a beautiful heart and spirit?
4. Read Proverbs 31:30; 1 Timothy 2:9-10; and 1 Peter 3:1-6. Why is it a shortsighted mistake for us to become preoccupied with external, physical beauty?
5. According to the passages above, what are the qualities that make a woman truly beautiful to God and to others? How do those qualities affect her outer appearance?
6. If God were to hold a mirror up to your heart today, what would He see?
Respond
7. How can you develop a heart that reflects great beauty?
Prayer of the Day
Father, I realize that the most important beauty I can have is the kind that comes from within. Please develop in me that true, enduring, inner beauty that is pleasing to You. Amen.
1 comment:
This section made me stop and think about if I am believing the lie that I must look like the world to be satisfied. It also made me stop and be careful about the emphasis I give on physical beauty when I talk to children and teens. Am I unknowingly telling them the lie that beauty is all important by what I talk about? Also, am I encouraging them more to grow more beautiful in their spiritual hearts as that will last and beauty will fade away.
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