Hi, And today we're going to continue our series on feminine beauty and

specifically talking about in the area of physical beauty what is our

role. In the last episode we talked about the truth about

physical beauty and we talked about that real lasting beauty can only come

from Jesus Christ and so once we understand that all true beauty both inward and

outward comes from Jesus Christ, then a lot of times the question comes up, how does God want us to

steward the physical body that he's given us?

And that is what we're going to focus on in today's episode.

I want to start by telling you a little of my own story and how I walked through some of these confusing issues in my younger

years. During my young adult years, God completely transformed my perspective on physical beauty,

as I described in the previous episode. I was set free from

obsessing over my appearance and I was filled with the desire to simply reflect

Jesus Christ rather than just try to draw attention to my own beauty or appearance.

But I still had a lot of questions on the practical side of this issue.

For instance, how much emphasis should I put on my outward appearance? Was it still okay to wear

makeup or trendy clothing or was it possible to be physically attractive in a

God-honoring way? This was really confusing to me because I saw a lot of

contradictory messages among Christian women that I observed. First there were the

conservative circles in which many Christian women that I saw seem to have abandoned any effort towards physical

beauty or style.

They completely avoided makeup, kept their hairstyle maybe 10 years out of date, and wore

drab unattractive clothing like the shapeless denim jumpers over the clunky white tennis shoes.

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