Do You Think Your Beauty Will Last?
Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceptive and beauty disappears, but a woman who honors the Lord should be praised.
Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceptive and beauty disappears, but a woman who honors the Lord should be praised.
The highest pinnacle of the spiritual life is not happy joy in unbroken sunshine, but absolute and undoubting trust in the love of God. A.W. Thorold
Psalm 32:10 Many are the woes of the wicked, but the Lord’s unfailing love surrounds the one who trusts in him.
Hebrews 13:15 Let us, then, always offer praise to God as our sacrifice through Jesus, which is the offering presented by lips that confess him as Lord.
Colossians 1:28 He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.
James 4:11 Don’t speak evil against each other, dear brothers and sisters. Words of advice: If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all! Don’t speak if it isn’t going to improve the silence!
1 Peter 2:4 Come to the Lord, the living stone rejected by people as worthless but chosen by God as valuable.
2 Peter 1 : 5 -7 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
I think of Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, “I want it NOW!” How many times did I pray for something never realizing how truly awful for me it would have been to have received it!? Mercifully, our Lord knows what it best for us, because He holds the plans for our…