BBD 05.27.21 Real Beauty (Classic)

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Classic from 2001

The Burning Bush Devotional

27 May 2021

Real Beauty

Why are
you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God;
for I shall yet praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God. - Psalm
43:5.

Charm is
deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be
praised. - Proverbs 31:30.

Who can
find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. - Proverbs 31:10.

As a ring
of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a lovely woman who lacks discretion. -
Proverbs 11:22.

Juliana
Borges this week was crowned "Miss Brazil.” In order to
make it to the top of the beauty queens in her country, she has had plastic
surgery four times and 19 smaller procedures. She has had liposuction and
changes have been made to her chin, nose, ears, and bust. Of the 27 finalists
in the Miss Brazil pageant one third have had plastic surgery. Juliana says, “Plastic surgery made me more beautiful and gave me confidence in myself
and the perfect measurements that won me this title.”

In
Uzbekistan, there is a different kind of beauty contest. In their first
national beauty contest swimming suits have been banned. In this contest, the
contestants in addition to their beauty will be judged on their inner beauty.
It will be their moral values on womanhood and motherhood on which they will
also be judged. An 18-year old woman from
Samarkand says the contest will be “a great opportunity for me to show my talent and to show my...maybe my
prettiness.”

There
is a beauty that is only skin deep. A shallow beauty can, in fact, be ugly and
repulsive. “A lovely woman who lacks discretion” the Bible says is like “a ring
of gold in a swine’s snout.” Now how ugly
and repulsive is that! What is a swine’s snout used for? It is
used to dig in the dirt, muck, mire, mud, and swill. A gold ring in a swine’s
snout would be disgusting.

Then
there is the beauty of holiness. An inner beauty that makes an
individual glow with attractiveness beyond anything plastic surgeons could ever
duplicate. There is the beauty of the flesh which would be like the
enchantments of Pharaoh's sorcerers (Exodus
7:11). Then there is the supernatural beauty of holiness,
which is like the miracles of God, which swallowed up the false enchantments of
the sorcerers (Exodus 7:12). Finally, there were miracles which the sorcerers could not even attempt
to duplicate (Exodus 8:18-19) and that too is like the beauty of holiness.

Nipping
and tucking and beauty treatments cannot duplicate spiritual beauty. For those
with this kind of beauty God is the “help of
their (my) countenance.” This kind of beauty is
worth “far above rubies.”

Copyright © 2001 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa
Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark
S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Shonda Hutson
(fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife, Jeanie, who is having a problem
with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
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Classic from 2001

The Burning Bush Devotional

27 May 2021

Real Beauty

Why are
you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God;
for I shall yet praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God. - Psalm
43:5.

Charm is
deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be
praised. - Proverbs 31:30.

Who can
find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. - Proverbs 31:10.

As a ring
of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a lovely woman who lacks discretion. -
Proverbs 11:22.

Juliana
Borges this week was crowned "Miss Brazil.” In order to
make it to the top of the beauty queens in her country, she has had plastic
surgery four times and 19 smaller procedures. She has had liposuction and
changes have been made to her chin, nose, ears, and bust. Of the 27 finalists
in the Miss Brazil pageant one third have had plastic surgery. Juliana says, “Plastic surgery made me more beautiful and gave me confidence in myself
and the perfect measurements that won me this title.”

In
Uzbekistan, there is a different kind of beauty contest. In their first
national beauty contest swimming suits have been banned. In this contest, the
contestants in addition to their beauty will be judged on their inner beauty.
It will be their moral values on womanhood and motherhood on which they will
also be judged. An 18-year old woman from
Samarkand says the contest will be “a great opportunity for me to show my talent and to show my...maybe my
prettiness.”

There
is a beauty that is only skin deep. A shallow beauty can, in fact, be ugly and
repulsive. “A lovely woman who lacks discretion” the Bible says is like “a ring
of gold in a swine’s snout.” Now how ugly
and repulsive is that! What is a swine’s snout used for? It is
used to dig in the dirt, muck, mire, mud, and swill. A gold ring in a swine’s
snout would be disgusting.

Then
there is the beauty of holiness. An inner beauty that makes an
individual glow with attractiveness beyond anything plastic surgeons could ever
duplicate. There is the beauty of the flesh which would be like the
enchantments of Pharaoh's sorcerers (Exodus
7:11). Then there is the supernatural beauty of holiness,
which is like the miracles of God, which swallowed up the false enchantments of
the sorcerers (Exodus 7:12). Finally, there were miracles which the sorcerers could not even attempt
to duplicate (Exodus 8:18-19) and that too is like the beauty of holiness.

Nipping
and tucking and beauty treatments cannot duplicate spiritual beauty. For those
with this kind of beauty God is the “help of
their (my) countenance.” This kind of beauty is
worth “far above rubies.”

Copyright © 2001 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa
Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark
S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Shonda Hutson
(fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife, Jeanie, who is having a problem
with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time constraints
the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email
to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the
confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org