God's Kind of Beautiful Woman
Just want to share some excerpts from the book Disciplines of The Beautiful Woman by Anne Ortlund. One good old book I dug from Booksale.
The beautiful woman is disciplined, chaste, discreet, deferring, gracious, controlled, “together.” This kind of woman God considers godly, which means she’s got His qualities, and she’s close to His heart. This is “His kind of woman” – His kind of beautiful woman.
Just want to share some excerpts from the book Disciplines of The Beautiful Woman by Anne Ortlund. One good old book I dug from Booksale.
The beautiful woman is disciplined, chaste, discreet, deferring, gracious, controlled, “together.” This kind of woman God considers godly, which means she’s got His qualities, and she’s close to His heart. This is “His kind of woman” – His kind of beautiful woman.
Now, under this umbrella of characteristics, she can have all kinds of personalities and still be beautiful. She can be vivacious or shy, colorful or cool, an administrator or a follower. She can be a corporation president or she can bake delicious molasses cookies – or both.
When a woman has God’s beauty – a meek and quiet spirit - she isn’t threatening to those around her. She doesn’t compete; she doesn’t “demand her rights”, because she’s secure. Her trust is in God to exalt her in His own way and time, and He does! He can afford to expand her gifts and increase her place in the world, because she’s not grasping for it. That’s God’s kind of beautiful woman.
1 Peter 3:3-4
Amplified Bible (AMP)
3Let not yours be the [merely] external adorning with [elaborate][a] interweaving and knotting of the hair, the wearing of jewelry, or changes of clothes;
4But let it be the inward adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful spirit, which [is not anxious or wrought up, but] is very precious in the sight of God.
