Are you as committed to making yourself look Today's Scripture:
Your beauty should come from within you - the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit that will never be destroyed and is very precious to God.
1 Peter 3:4
As you prepare to enter that most important meeting or sharing that critical presentation for the week, you check the mirror. You find that your newest tie, that name brand suit or perhaps for you ladies shoes that are just right with a dress that craves respect and beauty, like the magazine where it first caught your eye. With meticulous hair, manicured nails, and perfectly whitened teeth, you acknowledge that you will make a perfect first impression...just looking at yourself and how you have put yourself together makes you exude confidence.
You need to make a positive impression on others, so it is easy to get caught up in the newest look or hottest label of cutting-edge fashion, this is true for both men and women. Unfortunately, that perfect look isn't permanent. The clothes will wear and go out of style, the hair will gray or perhaps fall out, the nails will chip or break, and the teeth will stain again.
Maintaining the look of a leader is more about cultivating character than charisma.
It is important for yo to cultivate true beauty that never fades. One might expect a leader to be described as a "mover and shaker," rather than "gentle and quiet in spirit." Insight reveals "gentile" as a type of reliance on God to defend your injustices, and "quiet" as being steadfast in spirit. When you become confident enough to know that you do not have to defend every decision, and you are secure with your own God-given abilities, you exude the beauty of character that radiates from within and is precious to God. Take as much time cultivating inner beauty as you do you physical diet, exercise and yes grooming and putting that nice starch and crease - just so -in your clothing to top off your outer beauty, and if you do you will make a positive and lasting first impression not only on many, but on God the one who counts most of all as well.
Selah people' and friends conduct a character checkup today. If there is an area in which you are not relying on God to resolve a situation or even allowing his guidance by taking it to him in prayer, choose today to being to pray and commit it to him. Allow God to help you truly be all you can be, both inside and out.
"Peace can be yours if you will open up and allow God to do an extreme makeover on your insides that the world will see on the outside."
Your pastor,
Rev Patrick Muston
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