Clothed in Purple; 4 Ways to Get Your Glam On Without Misplacing the Focus!
By Kayla Howard
Beauty. It’s all around us: outside in nature, within creations made in our kitchens, in paintings made by the artist’s brush and in a well decorated home. It’s easy to find and praise beauty all around us, but can be oh-so-hard to applaud the beauty found in a woman’s face or in her figure.
There is one thing that I ponder… Why on earth would God have made women beautiful if beauty is shameful?
Depending on how you were raised, beauty may not have been encouraged. Christians have a general tendency to over emphasize Bible verses focusing on inward beauty, and skip anything that supports having outward beauty.
Having been raised (briefly) within that bondage, I’m now enjoying a liberty of the heart in this area and wanted to share about 4 ways to be beautiful from a freedom perspective.
#1 Be Energetic and Strong
Let me tell you. Energy and physical strength come from doing physical labor. Yes it’s true that energy is easier to find when your heart is happy and whole, but ultimately, you will need to move your body to strengthen it and boost energy levels… whether or not you feel like it.
Physical labor for the modern day woman is much different that it was just a few short years ago. Due to all our conveniences, which are wonderful indeed, we might need to create another way to exert some effort.
Enter the plethora of exercise DVDs and training advice found anywhere and everywhere today. You pick,– the choices are endless. Just choose and get to work!
You’ll feel more confident about your appearance and have more energy to go through life.
#2 Clothe Yourself Beautifully
Isn’t this a tough one! Struggles can range from simply not knowing what colors go together, to what styles look best on what body, to what is modest for your family. Whew!
The Proverbs 31 woman was “clothed in purple” which meant she had beautiful, stylish garments. Although how to dress beautifully is a fun subject, maybe for another article, what I really want to talk about is what NOT to wear.
Too many times as women we don’t make the effort to dress nicely day to day. We might still be in our yoga pants and baggy t-shirt when our husband arrives home from work.
Would you like to be greeted by a person dressed in sloppy clothes with greasy hair, or a clean, sharp looking lady with a smile?
#3 Use Color
Color in your hair, color on your face, color on your toes — you name it! I love color, but can unnatural color on your body become a problem?
If you ask me, the answer is no. After all, I am the girl with purple toenails, occasional pink highlights in my hair and a drawer full of makeup. That however, is actually a call you will make for yourself.
The heart of the matter is important. Why do you wear all that makeup? Is it to attracted attention? To cover up scars? To look more beautiful than other women? Or is it simply to enhance the best version of you — to bring a special radiance into your appearance?
For years I refused to wear anything but the simplest makeup. I was afraid of looking painted. Then I learned some tips from great makeup pros and viola! Makeup is easy, fun and natural looking.
Like everything else, taking time to learn how will make an immense difference.
#4 Refuse to Listen to Fear
Fear is like poison to beauty. It will make you sick. It will age you and it will render you useless to the world around you.
Clothe yourself rather in the whole armor of God. You are a warrior princess!!!
Daughter of God, stop being afraid of being beautiful. God is BEAUTIFUL!
Sure, dressing like a harlot is dumb and will attract the wrong kind of attention from the wrong kind of men. But it’s also not your responsibility to make sure no man ever lusts after you. Men bent on lusting after women don’t need immodest clothes to imagine anything about you. Trust me.
Embrace your beauty today. Radiate your God-given loveliness by framing it tastefully!
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