You're Better Than Hollywood

 •  2 min. read  •  grade level: 8
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None of us will compare very favorably with the frosting-coated Hollywood stars and fashion models that are constantly seen in public. These corrupted idols are always presented in the media as incredibly handsome or beautiful. But never forget, dear young sister, those goddesses of immorality that are so wildly popular for a few years of their life (when they are young) are horribly defiled, unclean, and impure. Their very life-styles are abomination to God.
If you don't want to act like them (and you surely shouldn't) then quit trying to look like them! God in His sovereign will gave you that unique body. He is pleased and satisfied with what He gave you. "God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him" (1 Cor. 15:3838But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. (1 Corinthians 15:38)). Be satisfied with what God is satisfied with and take good care of it. It is priceless. There's not another one like it in the whole world.
If you're discontented with the body that God has given you, before trying Hollywood's methods to improve it, why not spend time talking with its Creator? Let your Father who made you and loves you know all about your discontent and then seek His grace to be satisfied with the unique physical attributes He has seen fit to give you. Don't go beyond sensible, healthy living habits in caring for the body that God has entrusted to you to be used for His honor.
"Beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised" (Prov. 31:3030Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30)). This does not mean it is wrong to be attractive. God tells us in His Word about several godly women (such as Sarah and Rebekah) who were quite beautiful. But beauty is vain because it will not last. What does last and bring lasting benefits is "the fear of the Lord".