Skin Deep Beauty

“Beauty’s only skin deep, Ugly to the bone, Beauty fades away, BUT, Ugly holds It’s Own!” An old saying that I have heard all of my life, BUT reflecting on it as associated with the world around us ~This Day~ beings attention to the Bible Truth’s, AS IT IS Written… AS Jesus Said:
(Matthew 23:27) ..~WOE~ unto ye scribes and Pharisees, ~hypocrites!.. For ye are like unto whited sepulchers which indeed ~Appear~ beautiful ~Outward~ ,, but inside are ~FULL~ of dead men’s bones, and uncleanness… (28)… Even SOOOO ye ~ALSO~ Outwardly Appear .Righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity….
(II Timothy 2:22).. “Flee ~from~ youthful ~lusts~; But, follow ~Righteousness~, *Faith, Charity, Peace*, ~WITH~ them that Call on the Lord ~out of A pure *Heart*~
There Seems to be a frantic obsession with ~youth~, ~beauty~, ~body shape,~ toning here and tanning there, painting and remaking the bodies That our *Potter*, gave us to begin with…This IS echoed even in the Sanctuary Walls of meetings where we are supposed to be Assembled together to worship and praise God.…. “YOU look SOOOO Goood, who did your hair, where did you git that tattoo, what gym do you attend, ect.”
Time after time I hear folks say, “I ~Pray~ for the LORD to make me into what HE wants me to be.” BUT those same folks, arise and head out to the store to buy hair color, make-up, ~sexy cloths~, join the gym, visit the ~tattoo~ parlors, and even the ~plastic surgeons~…
IS this showing that we ~really want~ God to ~Make~ us into what HE wants us to be, OR IS IT Proving that we want to be what ~WE~ want to be… Vain & Self-centered, thinking only of superficial beauty…remaking over what God gave us, to suit ourselves. putting God in the rear of our thoughts, hearts, minds, ~intentions~?
(I Timothy 4:11-12) …. “These ~things~ Command & Teach, .. Let No Man despise thy youth; BUT! Be thou an example ~OF~ Believers, IN Word, IN Conversation, IN Charity, IN spirit, IN faith, IN ~Purity~, giving attendance TO: reading, exhortation, to doctrine…”
I see parents take beautiful children that God gave them, and paint them up like little models of Jezebel, and run out and put them in beauty contest… dressing them scantily in strips of clothing, called bikini’s, letting them parade around, before the perverts and pedophiles of this world of Satan, and expect them to be safe. Teaching them to gyrate their little bodies in the styles of porn dancers, alluring, and alluding to sultry sexual gestures, calling IT hot, looking good.. Indulging them completely in the ways of a ~lost & dying~ world… AND YET expecting them to reach adulthood unfettered by the filth and debauchery that the world and ~ALL~ Nations of IT Promote and take part in…
(Revelations 2:20) …~Unto The Church~~… “Thou sufferest (allow) ~that woman~ Jezebel, which calleth ~herself~ a prophetess, TO teach and TO seduce *MY* servants TO, commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.”
What impression IS made by a Sunday School Teacher or a teacher of the ~Youth~ that dresses scantily, spaghetti strap tops, halters, mini skirts, or shorts, tattooed all over, dyed and streaked hair, fake lashes, and nails? Beauty before and of the world filled with dead men’s bones? How do these teachers ~really~ stand before the LORD, they claim to be saved, they were Baptized, the Church allows them, yea, welcomes their teaching, BUT what ARE they teaching our ~youth~? They claim, as did Jezebel to be a teacher of God’s Word, But in actions, dress, mannerisms, they show a different testimony…. (v.23).. God States, “I Will Kill her children with death.”
Now, we teach, that Jesus Loves us, and that He forgives all our sin, BUT IF we continue to walk in the sin that He has forgiven, where are we walking? READ: (v.21)… I ~Gave~ her, (Jezebel) ~Space~ TO Repent of her fornication, BUT she repented not…
(Romans 9:8) … “They which are the children of ~the flesh~, these are not the children of God.”
This is referring TO those who were fleshly descended in Israel… But applies the same meaning, IF we walk after the flesh then the flesh IS our master….
(Matthew 6:24)… “No man, can serve ~two~ masters.”
(Romans 8:5) …For they that walk after the flesh ~Do Mind~ the things of the ~Flesh; BUT, that that ~ARE~ After The Spirit, the ~things that ~ARE of The Spirit..
When these same children do reach adulthood, and become alcoholics, dope addicts, having no morals, free sex addicts, because of the peer pressure to be fast, sexy, and cool, the best of the desired… ending up in trouble, these same parents scratch their heads and wonder… stating, “I ~Tried~ to raise my child right, *I* took them to Church & Sunday School, I gave them all the opportunities of this life that A person can have, and they just didn’t appreciate IT…” “The old Devil got into them.” IS this really a truthful statement ~OR~ did you hand your child over to the Devil by leading him/her down the wide spacious path of destruction by being all caught up in the ways of the world? AND/OR IS IT that the parents of today were taught to leave their morals behind and chase after their ~ALL About ME~ dreams in the world of Satan…??
(I Corinthians 6:17).. “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, ~Touch NOT~ The unclean thing…” IT does not read that you can walk in & with the unclean thing and Jesus wipes your sin away, BUT IT States, “Do NOT Touch” & *I* The Father God, WILL Receive you and Will Be A Father to you, Saith the LORD Almighty….
Yes, the children of today are given every opportunity that ~The World~ has to offer, Problem IS, ~The World~ belongs to Satan the Devil… What the parents are failing to do IS give their children the ~Opportunity~ TO: Meet the *REAL*, Lord Jesus Christ, and HIS Father, by the guidance of The Holy Spirit… BECAUSE!
The Holy Spirit does not lead us into ~tattoo parlors~, tell us that IT IS Good, ~to show our bodies to the world, paint ourselves, color our hair, dance in vulgar gyrating motions before mankind, BUT, The Holy Ghost, The Comforter, ~Testifies~ of Christ, The Son of God…(John 15:26).. SO The Comforter will lead us in God’s Way, BUT we ~MUST~ Follow.
AND! IF we were following the Son, IN Gods Will & Way, we would have been more careful about what we taught our children… how we dressed them, before the world, even to attend Church Services…. What we allowed them to be involved in…
WE ~MUST~ Teach our children in the days of their youth, TO: Respect the temples of their bodies, giving Respect Before God, by our actions, our dress, our speech…AND our OWN Actions MUST Be Chaste: AS IT IS Written IN:
(Titus 2:4-6) … Teach young women TO BE sober, to love their husbands, their children, TO BE discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their husbands, that The Word of God be ~NOT~ blasphemed, Young men, likewise (also), exhort to be sober minded… How many divorces, hurt and damaged children, would be avoided, IF folks lived by God’s Written Book of ~ALL~ Instruction, AND Taught IT TO Their children!??!
(Ecclesiastes 12:1) .. “Remember *NOW* thy ~Creator~ in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw…”
(Proverbs 22:6) Train up a child in the way he ~Should~ go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it…
BUT, IF we involve our children in the ways of the world, deeply rooting them in the values OR lack of them that the world follows, we are doing our children a grave injustice, BECAUSE, that IS the path that they will remain on, claiming that they can ~PUT~ Jesus in what they do and that makes IT Right… BUT Then that IS the attitude of many parents these days also, declaring, “IF IT looks good and seems like fun, and appears harmless to out fleshly safety, surely God won’t mind us doing IT and IF ~we~ add a Bible verse to IT, then that makes IT Right, with God and HE Steps Right in and guides us in our efforts to follow the world….and ALL WILL BE WELL… After ~ALL~ our heart IS IN The Right place!… IS IT?
(I Samuel 2:3) …. “Let ~NOT~ arrogancy come out of your mouth: FOR ~THE LORD~ IS A GOD OF Knowledge, AND BY HIM ~Actions~ ARE Weighed..”
(Matthew 15: 18-19) JEUS Said: “Those things which ~proceed~ OUT of the mouth, come forth ~From~ the heart; AND they ~Defile~ the man.. FOR Out of ~the heart~ proceed .. Evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: ~These ARE The Things~ which defile a man…” AND Jesus Also Said:
SOOOOoooo…. Basically, as Flip Wilson used to say, “What you see IS what you git”… *IF* our actions, ARE NOT a Visible Testimony of our Walk with God, Then, we can understand that they came forth from our heart and we need to go to the ~Heart Doctor~ Jehovah God The Father, in repentant prayer by the Holy Ghost, IN the NAME Of God’s Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ…. Doing a through search of the Written Scriptures for God’s Commands of what we are doing in our fleshly life that turns us away from the spiritually eternal life.. AND Put away the things that are contrary TO The Teachings of our Maker, THE Potter, Because we are only mere lumps of clay, incapable of molding ourselves into anything except to destructive ways… BY chasing our tails in the ways of the world seeking to be beautiful by IT’S Standards…. Because, IT IS Said, “Home IS where the Heart IS,” and IF our hearts are all caught up in the world, then it will show in our walk, our speech, our actions…
(I Peter 3: 2-3).. They behold your ~chaste conversation, coupled with fear, let *IT NOT* Be that outward adorning plaiting the hair, wearing of gold, putting on of apparel but as the women of ~OLD~ adorned themselves…