Bible Reading: I Peter 3:1-7
Key
Verse: Verse 4 - “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.”
Key Words: But let it be the hidden man of the heart
Our text verse
advises us that God prefers inward beauty to outward glamour. I read recently about a young officer who was
blinded during the war. He met and married one of the nurses who took care of
him in the Army hospital. One day he
overheard someone speaking about himself and his wife, and they said, “It was
lucky for her that he was blind since he never would have married such a homely
woman if he had his sight.”
He rose to his
feet and walked toward the voices saying, “I overheard what you said, and I
thank God from the depths of my heart for blindness of eyes that might have
kept me from seeing the marvelous worth of the soul of the woman who is my
wife. She is the most noble character I
have ever known. If the conformation of
her features is such that it might have masked her inward beauty to my soul,
then I am the great gainer by having lost my sight.”
The Bible teaches us that man looks on the
outward appearance, but God looks at the heart (I Samuel 16:7). If a man or woman possesses physical beauty,
they should be thankful to God for it, but they should realize it’s really
inward beauty that matters to God.
What to do:
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We have
little control over our outward beauty, but we
do have control over our inward beauty – work on it!!
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Outward
beauty with no inward beauty still equals “ugly.”
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