Do you have bling?
Bling-bling! It sparkles. It shines. And it surely catches your eye! You’ll be the envy of all your friends if you buy the new and improved Bedazzler.
The new thing in fashion is to be caught covered in sequins and sparkles from your head to your toes. It’s everywhere in magazines, on TV, in the mail catalogs and even in country stores I go in.
How do you want to attract attention…with sparkles and it being all about your outer appearance or do you want it to be about what is inside you? Every girl has a choice. I get tempted to think how do I look in this outfit, do these shoes match with this shirt, or is my hair alright? In fact I think like that every day and I probably shouldn’t do it at all.
What if instead we let our sparkle and light come from the inside? Let’s ask questions instead, asking if we have all the fruits of the Spirit, such as love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. Now that is some shiny fruit that is sure to sparkle and attract attention!
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23
Again, great post. We don’t need to completely ignore our outer appearance, just as long as our inward beauty is more than our every day outward beauty.
That was a wonderful encouragement, Lady Olivia!
Rachel
That was great!
I try to dress plainly to not draw attention to outer beauty, but inner.