True beauty...

"Your whole life you are developing your inner beauty. And with as much effort that you put into your inner beauty, as it unravels, it will amplify your outer beauty that much more!"

What is true beauty? Is it how pretty your face is, how nice of hair you have, how lovely your eyes are? Is beauty really dependent solely on a person’s outward appearance, or is it more than that? Is it possible that a person’s true beauty is actually dependant on more of what’s inside of them than on what’s outside? I think so.

I believe that true beauty springs more so from a person’s inner beauty than their outer. When a person spends more of their time concentrating on developing their inner characteristics instead of their outer, then that generates a beauty far greater and far more durable then any superficial, limited, outer characteristics could ever generate. When a person is beautiful on the inside, it radiates through out their countenance and can even enhance their outward appearance to others. But we can never know a person’s true inner beauty, or lack there of, unless we are willing to look past their outward appearance and see what’s really inside of them.

Also on another note, throughout the entire Bible, God praises our inner beauty above all else. Kindness, gentleness, humbleness, generosity, courageousness, confidence, these are the types of characteristics that God tells us that we should work towards and strive for. Achieving these kinds of personal accomplishments is what allows us to live truly happy and satisfying lives. This is what helps us to become more like God everyday. When we die and go to heaven, we will never hear anyone praising us because of how beautiful we looked or because of how our outward beauty caused people to just adore us. But what we will hear is how our inner beauty affected others; how our kindness and generosity inspired others and caused them to start a chain reaction of good deeds themselves. When we concentrate our focus on our inner beauty instead of our outer, we open the door to allowing God to work through those characteristics to change lives and to further the kingdom of heaven. And that is a goal worth living for!