Mother’s Day Musings: Beauty
Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. - Proverbs 31:30 (KJV)
And the Amplified Version:
Charm and grace are deceptive, and beauty is vain [because it is not lasting], but a woman who reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord, she shall be praised!
The Strong’s definition of vain is “vapour, breath.” And one of the definitions for praised is “to shine.” (The word halal can also have a negative connotation, as in boasting, but that clearly is not the implication here.)
Beauty is fleeting. It’s wonderful, but not lasting. There is a much higher standard by which we women can judge ourselves (and speaking as a mother of two wonderful, grown stepsons, a standard by which young men can judge prospective spouses). A woman who reverences the Lord shines with a beauty that does not dim.
Sweet! Because I’m getting a little gray.
