Fruit appears when trees receive nutrients and grow.

It comes from the inside out.

The same is true in our spiritual lives.

Trying to do good things apart from a true relationship with God is like gluing fruit onto a dead tree.

It's Thursday, March 15th, and you're listening to Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee

DeMox.

When you discover a new beauty tip, you like to share it, don't you?

After today's program, you'll want to send a friend the transcript at Reviverheart's.com,

because we're about to hear how to cultivate beauty that won't ever fade with age.

Here's Nancy in a series based on Proverbs 31 called The Countercultural Woman.

Do you ever wonder what the virtuous woman looked like?

Do you have a picture of her in your mind?

I think if we think about it, we all probably have this image of a woman who is physically beautiful.

And she may have been.

But you know what?

We don't know.

In fact, we're really talking here about not necessarily one particular woman,

but a woman who personifies and embodies the combination of traits and character

qualities of what it means to be a woman who walks with God. And I think that's why there's nothing

in Proverbs 31 that tells us what this woman looked like. There's nothing that describes her physical characteristics.

We don't know if she's tall or short. We don't know if she's narrow or wide. We don't know what she

looked like. What she's known for is an inner beauty that the world can't give you, that you

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