You’re So Pretty!

My 5 year old tells me all the time, “Mommy, you're pretty.”  I love it, and it makes my heart melt!

Yesterday, he gave me this flower, and of course I thanked him profusely.  I then tucked it in my hair.

“Mommy, you look pretty!” he squealed in delight.

Believe me, my outward appearance was anything but pretty.  My hair was an absolute mess from running around outside with the kids and I had no makeup on.

But that's not what he noticed.  To him, I was pretty because I was pouring out love and attention on him.

Outward beauty is such an unimportant thing compared to the inner beauty that we all can possess if we are living a life in love with Jesus.

He's not looking at the way we look on the outside.

1 Samuel 16:7  for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

1 Peter 3:3-4  Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;  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.

What do you want others to notice about you?  That you're the most fashionably dressed woman they know?  That your hair, nails, and makeup are always perfect?  That you obviously spend a considerable amount of time primping in front of the mirror?

Or do you want them to see past the outside and think you're beautiful because they know you love them?

Do you glow with the radiance that flows from a pure heart?

Proverbs 31:30  Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.