I just rented the Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and I never laughed so hard at those apes beating on people. Life is like the Planet of the Apes as far as people beat on each other in this life all the time either with their fists or their tongue. (If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. Gal. 5:15)
My single friends and I were talking about the New Year's Twilight Zone marathons and the episode where surgeons try to change the face of the woman who they thought was ugly because they all had pig faces. Our society has sold us what beauty is by Hollywood and models. Adolph Hitler believed the Scandinavian type look was the perfect race with blonde hair/blue eyes. Great for me with my Swedish ancestry, not so good for the Jewish people.
We tend to focus a lot on physical appearances in life. We don’t see as God sees do we? Man looks at the outward appearance and judges, but God looks at the heart: But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7
I know everyone thinks their children or grandchildren are beautiful, but babies usually are not. Their heads are usually shaped odd and mine rarely had any hair being blondes. My twin daughters give me grief that I did not put pretty bows in their hair growing up, but they have fine hair like me and they just fell out unless you taped them to their heads. In fact, they barely had any hair at all until they were around four years old. Same with me. Usually there is something that we don’t like about our bodies. For me it was fine hair, and my finger nails break off. I tried eating certain foods to change that and putting “Hard as nails” on my fingernails to get them stronger, but they still broke off. We are stuck with our bodies and we can only improve what we have unless we go under the knife to plastic surgeons.
When I see my baby pictures, I looked like a baby boy. I’ve listened to James Dobson radio broadcasts in the past and he talks about children and people who are nice looking having all the advantage and attention of strangers than those who have their face disfigured are not so appealing. I agree with this somewhat, but I’ve heard the stories of women who were in beauty pageants who have suffered from a low self-esteem. It can be comments that their father or mother said to them growing up or peers that fostered a bad self- image.
In high school, I probably had 100 dates. My blonde hair and blue eyes got me a lot of dates, but I had a very low self-esteem. It could be in relation to the conditional love from my dad and then continuing in a Christian marriage where it was more conditional love. I can say the same thing for many men I’ve met that are good looking. They could be tall and it’s not their anatomy. Why do men have such a low self-esteem? Some of it is in direct relationship to their jobs and usually for women it’s in relationship to pleasing their husband and their children.
I’ve noticed that teen children are very hard on parents as far as the approval rating. My approval rating has gone up a little bit in relation to having older daughters. My approval rating was at a way time low when my daughters were around 13-years old. My deceased husband suffered from low self-esteem issues and he was a very intelligent man who made mostly A’s in high school and had his father’s approval. I did my best to build up his self-esteem, in telling him he was the best, but I could not seem to break the spirit of condemnation/self-guilt he gave in to over his life.
I like to people watch at times, and I can’t help but noticed at a Christian church social if a woman walks in who is young, pretty, dressed in high heel boots, the men are quick to jump and talk to her and offer her seat, but not very common for a woman older, little overweight, not as pretty. Is beauty skin deep? Next, is the perfect body starting with Barbie dolls and then men get preoccupied with air brushed model bodies and looking at the size of their anatomy from male pornography. One of the top surgeries is breast and penis enlargements.
I was eating dinner with a man recently and he made comment how in the book of Job it said that Job’s daughters were beautiful. (Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers. Job 42:15.)
I have not quite figured out why there is a listing about Job’s daughters being beautiful. Was that physical beauty or inner beauty? I would hope that was beauty of the heart as women who fear the Lord and want to do the will of God in their life.
Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised. Proverbs 31:30
So now our society has determined that anorexia is the new norm. That Marilyn Monroe would have been a plus model. I was anorexic when I was a teen. I had gained weight when I was in junior high then I got sick with mono and decided I wanted to stay thin so I just quit eating. I went through one marriage with a spouse very focused on my weight and when I gained weight, he constantly put me down about the weight. After a divorce, God started building up my confidence and self-esteem apart from my weight. In my last marriage, we both gained weight which happens sometimes when you are comfortable with a person and I remember singing that song with my daughters, "Don't you wish your girlfriend what hot like me." I know my husband rather shook his head at me, but it's because I was hot and sexy in my mind, it no longer had anything to do with my physical appearance.
I always liked this song below, because it talks about a woman who fears the Lord. The fear of God is reverence for his holiness and it warns in the last day that not many people will fear God.
(The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 5:10, Proverbs 1:7, Job 28:28, Psalm 111:10, Duet. 6:13; Duet 10:20; Psalm 36:1; Rev. 14:7; Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:20; It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 10:31; There is no fear of God before their eyes. Romans 3:18)
In the story of the widow who came to the unjust judge it said he did not fear God or respect man. What a great man to have over a court room or over a nation (God forbid) (For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, Luke 18:4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtYKQ1prA0Q
We tend to focus a lot on physical appearances in life. We don’t see as God sees do we? Man looks at the outward appearance and judges, but God looks at the heart: But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7
I know everyone thinks their children or grandchildren are beautiful, but babies usually are not. Their heads are usually shaped odd and mine rarely had any hair being blondes. My twin daughters give me grief that I did not put pretty bows in their hair growing up, but they have fine hair like me and they just fell out unless you taped them to their heads. In fact, they barely had any hair at all until they were around four years old. Same with me. Usually there is something that we don’t like about our bodies. For me it was fine hair, and my finger nails break off. I tried eating certain foods to change that and putting “Hard as nails” on my fingernails to get them stronger, but they still broke off. We are stuck with our bodies and we can only improve what we have unless we go under the knife to plastic surgeons.
When I see my baby pictures, I looked like a baby boy. I’ve listened to James Dobson radio broadcasts in the past and he talks about children and people who are nice looking having all the advantage and attention of strangers than those who have their face disfigured are not so appealing. I agree with this somewhat, but I’ve heard the stories of women who were in beauty pageants who have suffered from a low self-esteem. It can be comments that their father or mother said to them growing up or peers that fostered a bad self- image.
In high school, I probably had 100 dates. My blonde hair and blue eyes got me a lot of dates, but I had a very low self-esteem. It could be in relation to the conditional love from my dad and then continuing in a Christian marriage where it was more conditional love. I can say the same thing for many men I’ve met that are good looking. They could be tall and it’s not their anatomy. Why do men have such a low self-esteem? Some of it is in direct relationship to their jobs and usually for women it’s in relationship to pleasing their husband and their children.
I’ve noticed that teen children are very hard on parents as far as the approval rating. My approval rating has gone up a little bit in relation to having older daughters. My approval rating was at a way time low when my daughters were around 13-years old. My deceased husband suffered from low self-esteem issues and he was a very intelligent man who made mostly A’s in high school and had his father’s approval. I did my best to build up his self-esteem, in telling him he was the best, but I could not seem to break the spirit of condemnation/self-guilt he gave in to over his life.
I like to people watch at times, and I can’t help but noticed at a Christian church social if a woman walks in who is young, pretty, dressed in high heel boots, the men are quick to jump and talk to her and offer her seat, but not very common for a woman older, little overweight, not as pretty. Is beauty skin deep? Next, is the perfect body starting with Barbie dolls and then men get preoccupied with air brushed model bodies and looking at the size of their anatomy from male pornography. One of the top surgeries is breast and penis enlargements.
I was eating dinner with a man recently and he made comment how in the book of Job it said that Job’s daughters were beautiful. (Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers. Job 42:15.)
I have not quite figured out why there is a listing about Job’s daughters being beautiful. Was that physical beauty or inner beauty? I would hope that was beauty of the heart as women who fear the Lord and want to do the will of God in their life.
Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised. Proverbs 31:30
So now our society has determined that anorexia is the new norm. That Marilyn Monroe would have been a plus model. I was anorexic when I was a teen. I had gained weight when I was in junior high then I got sick with mono and decided I wanted to stay thin so I just quit eating. I went through one marriage with a spouse very focused on my weight and when I gained weight, he constantly put me down about the weight. After a divorce, God started building up my confidence and self-esteem apart from my weight. In my last marriage, we both gained weight which happens sometimes when you are comfortable with a person and I remember singing that song with my daughters, "Don't you wish your girlfriend what hot like me." I know my husband rather shook his head at me, but it's because I was hot and sexy in my mind, it no longer had anything to do with my physical appearance.
I always liked this song below, because it talks about a woman who fears the Lord. The fear of God is reverence for his holiness and it warns in the last day that not many people will fear God.
(The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 5:10, Proverbs 1:7, Job 28:28, Psalm 111:10, Duet. 6:13; Duet 10:20; Psalm 36:1; Rev. 14:7; Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:20; It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 10:31; There is no fear of God before their eyes. Romans 3:18)
In the story of the widow who came to the unjust judge it said he did not fear God or respect man. What a great man to have over a court room or over a nation (God forbid) (For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, Luke 18:4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtYKQ1prA0Q
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