USE GOD'S MAKE UP

December 2

USE GOD’S MAKE-UP

Psalms 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Just as the look of our countenance reflects the state of our physical health, so it does with our spiritual health. There is no facial make-up in this world that can bring freshness and youth that a God-abiding heart will. No amount of foundation will cover the wrinkles of passing years, no blush will bring the colors of vigor, no lipstick will provoke attraction, and no eye-shadow, mascara or eye-liner will give the eyes the vitality and truth that is brought on our face by the Spirit of God.

In His days, Jesus told the Pharisees, ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness (Matthew 23:27). I reminds me of the Middle Ages when nobles used to cover their faces with white powder in order to hide the dirt and ‘look’ clean because washing was complicated process,.

Do we sometimes do the same? Do we cover our ‘face’ with ‘white powder’ so to hide the dirt? Do we color it to hide the sickly look that could be the result of unhealthy living and appetites? Do we dress our eyes with colors to bring into them the light of God that we feel they are missing?

Let us rather dress ourselves with the Lord. Through what we see, hear, think and meditate on, let us fill ourselves with His Spirit. He will then be health, vitality and beauty in us that will surpass all our puny carnal attempts to beauty.

Isaiah 40:29-31 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.