The Beauty of Holiness

It is what is inside that counts. The mothers of my generation understood something that we seem to have lost in the present generational culture. There is a beauty that does not get its glow from a bottle or a nip and tuck. It is the beauty of holiness. The beauty that only a dynamic relationship with the Holy God, our Father, can produce. The glow that comes from time spent in His presence in worship and praise, from time spent in His word.

Remember Moses as he came down from Mt. Sinai after spending time talking with Yahwah? His countenance was so bright that he had to wear a veil to protect the Israelites from the “glow”. The glow was not a result of Moses beauty but rather a reflection of the beauty of the One in whose presence he had spent time. True beauty does not come easy. There is a price to pay to get the “glow” that is everlasting. In John 16:24 Jesus says “if anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me”. It is the cross that transforms us into a woman of beauty. As we daily give up our desires, nail them to the cross, we take on more and more of the beauty of Jesus. As a little girl in Sunday School we used to sing “let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me, all His wonderful passion and purity. O, Thou Spirit divine, all my nature refine, til the beauty of Jesus be seen in me.”

Father, create within us, Your daughters, a deep, burning desire to seek after the beauty of Holiness, the only beauty that is everlasting.