Beauty – the inner dimension
Posted by steve MUTHUSI on September 11, 2009
Aren’t we all beautiful? In the outside I mean.
Designed by the master creator, maker of the galaxies and the milky ways. The lord God almighty.
With no physical body, He says we are created in His image, in His beauty.
This is got to be Beauty deeper than the depths of our skin…
Beauty beyond the visible…
Further than our features…
Deep in the inside of us, where true God like beauty, resides.
Yet men and women of the world today are focused on the cosmetic rather than deeloping the in-depth appearance. The aesthetic rather than the authentic, more carnal than they are spiritual, yet the physical came and continually flows from the spiritual!
No greater beauty than the one who is donned in the beautiful ornaments of inner values and virtues.
Lets not be like the proverbial white washed tombs, beautiful in the outside but full of dry bones and uncleanliness in the inside. Looking great in the outside but full of all manner of vices in the inside. Positive attributes sacrificed in the altars of ‘looking great’. Emphasizing more on impressing than leaving an impression, as our ugly faces of addictions and defeating behaviors go without any correcion surgery, unadmirable even by ourselves!
No matter the extremes the human race go to improve on the physical,
it shall never invalidate the fact that life comes from the spiritual, and it is lived from inside out, never vise versa.
The person you are in the inside is the person you really are. If only we could make our minds up as a friend of mine once told me… ‘Steve, this time am going to be the person I have always pretended to be’. Figure that out!
Have you ever met someone you admired on first sight (outside), an admiration that lasted until the person opened their mouth to speak?(inside).
We all know wealthy, learned and classy people who we don’t wish to be like because they lack this inner beauty. Physically promising but inwardly disappointing. Heavy clouds that bringeth forth no rain! With eyes but cannot see. Having gone beyond moderation in pursue of elusive outer beauty that changes with and is defined by time.
Inner beauty is what Christ was. He Himself says He brought us beauty for ashes. Teaching us how to love unconditionally and sacrificially, be honest, kind…taking away the ashes of our ‘self lives’ for the beauty of His life. This kind of beaty is what determines the quality of our lives, relationships, service to others, worship to God and love for ourselves….doesnt the greatest book of all time say (outer) ‘beauty is deceitful’?
(Imagine a handsome man or a beautiful woman who is unfaithful, abusive, and selfish)
Jesus won the admiration of His worst critics because of the beauty He possessed in the inside! Forgiving sinners, dinning with perverts, passionately loving all who came to Him….That to me is true beaty
Rather than being like a beautifully wrapped empty boxes, we can adorn ourselves with the ornaments of values and virtues, knowing what Daniel knew. Defiling ourselves with the pleasures of the ruler of this world may not deface us, but will spoil our more important person in the inside. I’am not against looking great in the outside, nop. but doing so while the inner man starves in ‘ugly’!
This lessons need be learned by us as individuals and as groups. For instance,
If only the worshipers (and all other ministers of the lord) could have more hours before the throne seeking his face than in front of the mirror wondering how they will look ‘performing onstage’, then the beauty of the lord would be manifested in the congregation, His wonders, He would perform. The difference between such and they that worship in truth and spirit is an inner element (dimension), the state of the heart. The one worships God with their lips, their hearts far from Him, the other use their lips to express their ‘hearty’ worship to the Father of all nations!
Ask my brother Sam, a professional in creative and performing arts, and he will tell you that …
‘Award winning performances have more hours on backstage preparations than stage performances’.
The unseen perfects the seen; the ‘inner’ is superior to the ‘outer’
THE UNSEEN DEFINED THE SEEN.
