The July 2025 Refreshing Daily in God’s Word will be the last issue of the devotional. Pastor Michael Rouse retired June 29, 2025. At the present time, Mountain View Baptist Church does not have anyone to continue this ministry.
We appreciate all the support and prayers that you have given for this ministry since 2007 when it first began. We pray the devotionals have been a blessing and have brought you closer in your walk with the Lord.
In the future, the Lord may allow the devotional to return. In the meantime, we are asking for your prayers for the man that God chooses for our church.
Thank you and God bless you!
Key Verse: Verse 30 - “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”
Key Words: beauty is vain
Outer beauty attracts men, but inner beauty can keep them.
I read about two fairly well-to-do women who spent an afternoon at the local mall searching for “the perfect outfit.” The following day was to be a special event and the two women wanted to look especially attractive. The two had their nails polished to a fine brilliance, hair done by a well-known stylist, selected a sweet-smelling perfume, and tried on outfits. While in the dressing room of a fashionable department store, the two women made certain their every need was catered to by the store assistants. “This outfit is much too small!” yelled the first woman as she threw her garment at the store assistant. “Go get me another one now!” she ordered. The second woman chimed in, “You fool! You brought me the blue dress! I told you I look horrid in blue!”
For the next hour, the two women tried on many glittery outfits as they verbally abused and insulted the assistants whose job it was to assist “special” customers. By the time the women finally selected appropriate outfits, the assistants felt drained and were glad to see the two women go. “Have you ever seen such ugly women?” asked one assistant to the other. “What do you mean?” asked the other, looking puzzled, “Those women were very attractive.” “Attractive on the outside, yes, but on the inside, they were ugly as sin!” answered the assistant as she gathered up the dresses which were strewn all over the dressing room floor.
If only the women in this story would spend as much attention on their inner being as on their outer appearance. Often, we spend too much time and money on things that God does not even care about. What He is concerned with, though, is if we neglect to beautify our inner being with the truth and light of His Word and how we treat others. These are things which cannot be bought in a store. What do you see when you look in the mirror?
What to do:
✞Spend time daily on making the inner man more beautiful than the outer man.
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